Sleepwalking
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I’m his mother. A mother knows things - feels them. When her child isn’t well. Isn’t happy.
The kitchen of a suburban house. A mother and daughter raise a child in the most normal way possible following the departure of a family member.
Tensions rise as the pair skirt around issues that underpin their co-dependency, proving that what goes on inside a relationship is never clear to the people outside.
This searing new play by award-winning writer Hannah Khalil is published in Methuen Drama’s Lost Plays series, celebrating new plays that had productions postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the global shutdown of theatre spaces.
Hannah Khalil is a playwright and dramatist. Her work for stage includes A Museum in Baghdad, which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre in 2019 directed by Erica Whyman, and will transfer to London’s Kiln Theatre in April 2020; Interference at National Theatre of Scotland, The Scar Test at Soho Theatre and Scenes from 68* Years at the Arcola. Scenes from 68* Years was nominated for the James Tait Black award and has subsequently been produced by Golden Thread Theatre in San Francisco and in Tunisia production (supported by British Council Tunisia and AFAC and produced by Alia Al Zougbi). She is currently under commission to write new work for Shakespeare's Globe and Chichester Festival Theatre. Alongside her theatre work, Hannah has written numerous radio plays, including The Unwelcome, Last of the Pearl Fishers and The Deportation Roomall for BBC Radio 4. Television work includes multiple episodes of the Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks.