3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle
Synopsis:
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle is an autobiographical play which I created and perform with my younger sister, Kate. The play is about how our close sibling relationship was affected by an eating disorder when we were teenagers.
Number of Characters: 2
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 22
Location: Wherever you like.
Key Words: Eating disorders, autobiographical, comedy, siblings.
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? No
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twenty-eight
Synopsis:
At school, she read an article that said women in their 28th year are in their prime. At 28, women are at their most confident, they feel like the sexiest version of themselves to date, but it is here that they also become most aware of their biological clocks tick-tick-ticking away.”
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce. A 28-year-old actress has made a discovery, and decides to process it the best way she knows how – by getting into character to tell a story of what could have been.
An exploration of form as well as theme, twenty-eight uses the live process of creating a play to dissect decisions and ideas about womanhood, relationships, and the pressures women face about wanting to be, or not wanting to be, a Mother.
twenty-eight, a new play about loss, Mothers and Motherhood written and performed by Alexandra Donnachie (3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle; When We Died – Bruntwood Prize Longlist), directed by Jessica Lazar (Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award Winner with Atticist Theatre; Clean Break Award Nominee).
Number of Characters: 1
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1
Length (in Pages): 20
Location: London
Key Words: Grief, death, motherhood and cancer.
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
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When We Died
Synopsis:
He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye. She often imagines what each person’s life was like. But today she doesn’t have to imagine who he is. She knows him.
Faced with the body of the man who raped her eleven months ago, When We Died is a striking new play about one woman’s choice to confront her trauma and tell her story, on her terms.
A story about overcoming trauma, choice and ownership of narrative.
Number of Characters: 1
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1
Length (in Pages): 22
Location: A commuter town in the UK.
Key Words: Sexual violence, death, grief, embalming.
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins: WINNER: Best Script, Stagey Place Awards 2023. NOMINATED: Best Play, Stagey Place Awards 2023. SHORTLISTED: The Filipa Bragança Award 2023.
Reviews:
"Donnachie is really terrific - her body turning and twisting, bending and swaying ... It’s quietly hold-your-breath gripping". Lyn Gardner for Stagedoor.
★★★★★ West End Best Friend
★★★★★ Lost in Theatreland
★★★★★ Fringe Biscuit
★★★★ London Theatre 1
★★★★ The Reviews Hub
★★★★ Spy in the Stalls
★★★★ North West End
★★★★ Within Her Words
★★★★ Act Drop
★★★★ London Theatre Reviews
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★ The Indiependent
★★★★ The Wee Review
★★★★ The Student
★★★★ Everything Theatre
★★★★ Broadway World UK
★★★★ All That Dazzles
★★★★ Varsity
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