"Share equal da child-care? When done you get so f*ckin’ middle class? What, you gonna get a nanny next? Gonna start quaff quaffin’ red wines an’ chattin’ sh*t ‘bout dem rocketin’ house prices?" Read more …
Pink loves Rolly. Rolly loves Pink. And Pink loves getting bombed off her face. Sisters from the same nest. Both trapped in a tiny rotting world. Both cuffed to a past that refuses to release them. One wants out. The other needs her in. Trouble is, when you complete each other, you’re nothing on your own.
Commissioned by celebrated theatre company Clean Break, Pests is the searing new play from Vivienne Franzmann (Mogadishu, The Witness), winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition 2008, George Devine Award 2010 and the Pearson Playwright Bursary for the Royal Court 2012.
Interview: theatre director Lucy Morrison on Vivienne Franzmann's addiction drama Pests
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Thursday May 22, 2014, until Saturday May 24, 2014. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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