A surprising and romantic new play from Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.

[Stephens] has emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright Financial Times A brilliant writer of immense imagination with an acute observation of people's foibles Independent fascinating The Times Stephens serves up extreme, articulate characters who hold the interest The Times The play opens with a scene of highly charged sexual chemistry that shows why Stephens is an award-winning writer. Independent the dialogue has a rare quality of moment-by-moment intensity Daily Telegraph a play that you feel in your bones ... The writing is like a series of electric shocks. Guardian

Simon Stephens has been the recipient of both the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2001-2 for his play Port, and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2005 for On the Shore of the Wide World. His recent plays include Harper Regan (National Theatre), Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange, Manchester), Pornography (Traverse and Birmingham Rep), Wastwater (Royal Court and Wiener Festwochen), The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre), Three Kingdoms (Lyric Hammersmith), Morning (Lyric Hammersmith) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre/West End).