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Prickly Heat

  • Simon Donald
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9781854590107

A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Published in volume First Run

A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

Simon Donald's play Prickly Heat was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 1988.

REVIEWS:

"Four loveless characters – a boxer, his trainer, a runaway country girl and a peculiar landlord (who keeps beers and frocks in the fridge) – jostle for position and squirt milk, oil and water over each other... I really enjoyed this one."

 Financial Times

Premiere Production: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1988.
  • Casting: 3M, 1F