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Lucy Kirkwood

    Chimerica
    The Human Body
    Rapture
    The Welkin
    • A play of political and private passions, set in the 1940s against a backdrop of the foundation of the NHS. Premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2024.

      The Human Body2024
    • A slippery thriller for the stage, about love, power and belief. In a modern world where reality is whatever we imagine it to be, how do we know the stories we tell ourselves are true?

      Rapture2022
      4.4
    • The Welkin

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      The astonishing new play from the award-winning author of Chimerica and The Children. One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons have to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.

      The Welkin2020
      4.4
    • Chimerica

      • 135 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West.

      Chimerica2013