Fibres
‘We were two weans playing at wee hooses… Now we’re both paying the price.’
Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's a fool. But the real test of their marriage comes when they discover that the dusty overalls Jack brought home for Beanie to wash have poisoned her too.
Meanwhile their daughter, Lucy, is struggling; will she be held back by her parents' experience, or will she have the courage to allow romance to blossom with Pete?
Frances Poet's play Fibres is a big-hearted, hilarious drama about what it means to entwine our lives with another. A story told by four resilient, witty Glaswegian characters, the play asks can we ever cut the cords that bind us – and who will catch us if we do?
The play toured Scotland in 2019, in a co-production between Stellar Quines Theatre Company and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
Frances Poet's other plays include Gut (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play), Adam (National Theatre of Scotland), Dance of Death after Strindberg (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), What Put the Blood after Racine (Peacock Theatre, Dublin) and Faith Fall (Òran Mór and Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol).