Eight

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Previewed 6 July 2009, opened 8 July 2009, closed 25 July 2009 at the Trafalgar Studio 2 in London

Ella Hickson's award-winning set of monologues Eight in London for a strictly limited three week season.

"Truly impressive and exciting hour of theatre. Ella Hickson is clearly not only a huge writing talent, but also a mean director, too" The Scotsman

You chose your company; as you enter the theatre you, the audeince, select four from eight captivating monologues that offer a group-portrait of Britain’s youth. From high-class hookers and 7/7 survivors to squaddies making friends in morgues, these monologues are beautifully crafted and hugely effecting.

"Hickson creates believable emotional states - A potent show indeed" The New York Times

Ella Hickson's debut play, which she wrote and directed, was staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, winning a 'Fringe First' award aswell as the 'Carol Tambor Award' which took the show to the Under the Radar Festival in New York earlier this year.

"You can see why Ella Hickson's self-directed compendium of eight monologues scooped the Carol Tambor Award and a three-week run in New York following its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut. Because this is one of the most self-assured, startlingly well-written and moving pieces of theatre around, and by rights the producing houses should be over Hickson like a rash. Imagine the spirit of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads trickled down a couple of generations of 21st-century lives in motion, and you're getting close to where Hickson's head is at." The Glasgow Herald

Eight in London at the Trafalgar Studios 2 previewed from 6 July 2009, opened on 8 July 2009 and closed on 25 July 2009.