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I suppose I never questioned why I was only one piece beforeA woman trapped at home during an air raid.A mother who starts to see double.A whole life in one breath.Three short plays by Alistair McDowall introduce us to three women whose ordinary lives mask extraordinary internal worlds. This trilogy includes the plays, Northleigh, 1940, In Stereo and all of it, written for and performed by Kate O'Flynn, this edition was published to coincide with the run at the Royal Court and the Avignon Festival in June 2023.

People find me. When it's dark.1863. An asylum.A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there.When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect candidate.But as the woman's past begins to reveal itself, so do new powers neither are prepared for.Alistair McDowall's haunting new play The Glow was the 2018 Pinter Commission, an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser to support a new commission at the Royal Court Theatre.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre in January 2022.

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Nineteen-year-old science genius Luke finally has some peace to work on the extraordinary box in his living room, holed up in a dingy flat on a near-abandoned Middlesbrough housing estate. After his unbalanced brother Rob introduces him to a wealthy out-of-towner they're thrown into a dangerous world that threatens to tear the brothers apart and unleash the power inside his invention.Brilliant Adventures is a fast paced tale of brotherhood, addiction and breaking the laws of physics.