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Stitching

A bizarre and beautiful love story

Written and Directed by Anthony Neilson
Designed by Bob Bailey, Lighting Designed by Chahine Yavroyan
Sound Designed by David Denholm
With Phil McKee and Selina Boyack

We will fix it.
We will mend it………

A man and a woman meet, to discuss in the light of a pregnancy, the future of their tempestuous relationship. They must pick apart their history, stitch by painful stitch to find out when and where it went wrong, and to decide if it can be mended.

Stitching is a bizarre and darkly comic love story and a sexual dialogue between two grieving people.

“Neilson’s Stitching is the talking point of the fringe and one of the most exciting plays of the year. Startlingly rich and challenging , Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust. McKee and Boyack are extremely impressive. I left the theatre with my pulse, and my mind, racing.” - Time Out

“Anthony Neilson examines the way we love now with his exquisite brand of bruised tenderness. A brave play, acted with enormous bravado by Selina Boyack and Phil McKee” - The Guardian

“Anthony Neilson’s new play explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy…..Neilson’s writing has a terrible beauty…he directs with impeccable clarity and objectivity and the acting blazes like subterranean fire” - The Sunday Times

“a searing new play……definitely on my short list for the best of 2002” - Independent on Sunday

Stitching played to critical acclaim at the Traverse and Bush theatres and on national and international tour. It won a Time Out Award for best off west end production and the writer received a Herald Angel and was short-listed for an Evening Standard Award.

Stitching is published by Methuen ISBN 0413772934


Production Photography Sean Patterson
Publicity image by Herbie Knott