figures
figures is a stage play performed in the round, sixty minutes long.
Three ladies are connected through family and the workplace and each has a different challenge as they deal with their breast cancer.
figures explores the differences finance can play, the changing of a woman’s figure, cut it away or demanding reconstruction and the reaction of husbands and lovers.
This play features the prize winning entry to The Guardian/Orange Text Poetry Competition. The only male writer to feature among the five finalists.
Not good newsJus left the clinic
b strong cheri
arm ok no panic
need u 2 PROMISE me
2 keep kissin
me left breast
cos baby nxt week
me right’ll be missin
cheri b strong wiv me
