How to Hold Your Breath

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In 2017, she adapted Ibsen's The Master Builder for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the resultant play was called The Fall of the Master Builder and was directed by James Brining. Zinnie Harris: 'You try to destroy women at your peril' ". HeraldScotland. 11 May 2019 . Retrieved 2023-01-15. McGinty, Stephen. "Toil and trouble to put Lady Macbeth in the spotlight". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 2023-01-15. Harris was born in Oxford and brought up in Scotland. She studied zoology at Oxford University, followed by an M.A. in Theatre Direction at Hull University. Themes and context [ edit ]

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Harris has written a number of shorter plays; The Garden for the Traverse Theatre (2010); The Panel for the Tricycle Theatre London for the Women, Power and Politics Season (2010); and From Elsewhere: The Message / From Elsewhere: On the Watch for the Tricycle Theatre as part of The Bomb: a Partial History Season (2012).Amnesty award goes to Edinburgh fringe plays Sold and The Wheel". The Guardian. Press Association. 2011-08-25 . Retrieved 2018-10-15. Become a Faber Member for free and receive curated book recommendations, special competitions and exclusive discounts. A witty performance from Peter Forbes as a librarian with more than a passing interest in creatures of the underworld – no relation to Rupert Giles – and a helpful collection of books catered for every possible, niche eventuality; How To Look Like You’re Enjoying Yourself While Your Skin Is Repelled, How To Get To Sleep Despite The Extreme Heat etc etc. In a nutshell? So what, you may well ask, is going on? I assume Jarron, whose attempt at paying Dana for sex is steadfastly refused, represents the reduction of all human relationships to a monetary transaction. The librarian, who pops up at regular intervals in Dana’s life with a succession of “how to” books, symbolises a consumerist belief in easy solutions to every problem. Dana herself, meanwhile, is a woman of principle half drawn to, and half repelled by, the glittering prizes offered by a corrupt society. What we see is how Dana would react if the normal roles were reversed and, as Europe collapses, she were turned into an economic migrant. Because we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenience. Perhaps not such a good mini break. But really in the grand scheme of life, not so bad.

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Peake slices across the stage like a laser beam. She is an actor worth crossing the country to see. But the characterisation on which she has to work is slight. She is 1) an insulted woman; 2) an all-too-plausible specialist in “customer dynamics”; 3) a victim of European meltdown, desperately trying to reach the new economic beacon of Africa. In the most dynamic scene she is perched at the top of a vertiginous slope, trying not to slide down towards the outstretched arms of a drowning crowd. Plays one: Further than the furthest thing; Midwinter; How to hold your breath; Meet me at dawn Harris, Z., Harris places her protagonist in an Odyssean role as she traverses the storms brewing in European society. Maxine Peake, Hamlet Star and no stranger to leading roles, commands this position with ease. Strong support comes from Christine Bottomley, whose delivery of a monologue about the death of her child is awful and mesmerising,

Harris’ original plays also put female characters at the centre of the narrative. How to Hold Your Breath (2015) challenges the notion of the ‘everyman’ and Meet me at Dawn (2017) dramatizes the relationship between two women in an examination of grief. [7] Career [ edit ] 1999–2010 [ edit ]