Isley Lynn Plays 1

<p><b>The first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn whose award-winning work uplifts their deeply human characters through stories that are unexpected radically intimate and profoundly theatrical.</b> <p/>Lean (2013): It's not just powerful but it's incandescent. There is a profound intensity... that truly keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Sensitively written... Exemplary theatre at its best. <i>The London Stage</i> <p/>Skin A Cat (2016): Frequently hilarious it's also refreshingly honest and open in its discussion of menstruation masturbation oral and anal sex and might well be the smartest sharpest piece about female sexual identity since Phoebe Waller Bridge's Fleabag... this is bold and genuinely exciting new writing. <i>The Stage</i> <p/>albatross (2021): Every intimate individual scene is engaging as the full-bodied characters knock up against their own judgments and histories... Lynn's scenes are full of genuine connections between characters and the hope that comes with change. <i>Guardian</i> <p/>The Swell (2023): Isley Lynn's characters are nuanced and beautifully drawn and the play's dialogue is gorgeously natural and flowing. Where the playwright really excels though is in bold and unexpected choices. The Swell takes its audience on some hugely gripping twists and turns. Lynn's writing is genuinely exciting. <i>Evening Standard</i> <p/>Isley won the Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2023 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for <i>The Swell</i> which was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement In An Affiliate Theatre at the 2024 Olivier Awards as well as Best New Play Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Off West End awards.<i> Skin A Cat</i> was awarded Pick Of The Year at Vault Festival 2016 and nominated for four Off West End Awards (Most Promising New Playwright - shortlist Best New Play Best Lead Female Best Director) for its transfer as inaugural production at The Bunker 2016 before touring nationally throughout 2018. Isley was the 2014 Script6 winner at The Space with <i>Bright Nights</i> they received Special Commendation from the 2012 Soho Young Writers Award for <i>Lomography</i> and they were twice named Champion of Literary Death Match (Norfolk and Norwich Festival The Book Club London).</p>