Colder than Here

by Laura Wade

Overview

"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"

Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future. Laura Wade's beautifully poised family drama was first performed at Soho Theatre, London.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350320208
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/01/2022
Series:	Modern Plays , #6
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.05(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Laura Wade's plays include The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory), Home, I'm Darling (Theatr Clwyd, National Theatre and West End), Posh (Royal Court Theatre and West End), Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (Globe Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Other Hands (Soho Theatre), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Catch (Royal Court Theatre, written with four other playwrights), Young Emma (Finborough Theatre), 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement) and Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Films include The Riot Club. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade's plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Mexico.

Editorial Reviews

Laura Wade's play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent. It is a play of love, death and grief: the grief that is hardest to bear, because it begins before the loved one dies. FIVE STARS” —Sunday Times

“Wade's original and beautifully observed play balances raw emotion with a deliciously delicate black humour.” —The Stage

From the Publisher

Laura Wade's play is set in the limbo between a death sentence and the death itself. How does knowledge of one's imminent demise, or that of a loved one, affect the living of one's life?

The Guardian (London)

The play is an astute and humorous portrayal of a family pulling together in the face of impending grief. It takes a timely look at society's changing attitude towards the process of dying and the ceremonies associated with death.

This Is London

Laura Wade's play is a ninety-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent. It is a play of love, death, and grief: The grief that is hardest to bear, because it begins before the loved one dies.

Sunday Times (London)