{"product_id":"isley-lynn-plays-1-lean-skin-a-cat-albatross-the-swell-paperback","title":"Isley Lynn Plays 1: Lean; Skin a Cat; Albatross; The Swell - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsley Lynn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLean (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.\" \u003ci\u003eThe London Stage\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkin 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.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Stage\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ealbatross (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.\" \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\" \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsley won the Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2023 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for \u003ci\u003eThe Swell\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ci\u003e Skin A Cat\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBright Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, they received Special Commendation from the 2012 Soho Young Writers Award for \u003ci\u003eLomography\u003c\/i\u003e, and they were twice named Champion of Literary Death Match (Norfolk and Norwich Festival, The Book Club London).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsley Lynn\u003c\/b\u003e (she\/they) is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. They won the 'Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award' at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 for their play \u003ci\u003eThe Swell\u003c\/i\u003e, which opened to great acclaim as part of Tom Littler's first season at the Orange Tree Theatre and was also nominated for Best New Play, Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Offie Awards. Their play \u003ci\u003eSkin a Cat \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded Pick of the Year at the Vault Festival 2016 and its production at The Bunker later that year led to four nominations for Off West End Awards including Most Promising New Playwright and Best New Play; it then toured nationally in 2018. Other credits include: \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(New Diorama Theatre 2019, international tour 2021); 'Canace' in \u003ci\u003e15 Heroines \u003c\/i\u003e(Jermyn Street Theatre 2020); \u003ci\u003eAlbatross \u003c\/i\u003e(Paines Plough and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama at Bute Theatre and Gate Theatre 2018); \u003ci\u003eThe Swell \u003c\/i\u003e(HighTide First Commissions play reading 2018); \u003ci\u003eSie und Wir \u003c\/i\u003e(Us and Them) for Werk X in Vienna (2016); \u003ci\u003eTether \u003c\/i\u003e(Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015); and \u003ci\u003eWhat's So Special \u003c\/i\u003e(as part of The Get Out at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs 2014). Her play \u003ci\u003eBright Nights \u003c\/i\u003ewas a Script6 winner at The Space in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758472298784,"sku":"9781350504523","price":44.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/36f480348281b24bacaed70dd04e0c69.webp?v=1780127183","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/isley-lynn-plays-1-lean-skin-a-cat-albatross-the-swell-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}