Animal
by Clare Lizzimore

Name: Animal
Brand: Clare Lizzimore
SKU: 9780822237914
Rating: 3.87 (28 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Synopsis

Rachel has it all: marriage, house, career.

So why does she suddenly have this creeping feeling?

Did she leave something behind?

Or is there something in the walls...?

Her husband thinks she needs some time; her psychiatrist suggests positive thinking.

But then the visions start.

A darkly comic play about the underside of domesticity, the complexity of the brain in chaos, and the thin line between sinking and survival.

Themes Puerperal Psychoses

Press Reviews

"[ANIMAL] teas[es] out its fractured storyline with elements of menace and surrealism reminiscent of Harold Pinter…” —The Hollywood Reporter. “…Lizzimore’s drama turns one woman’s mental descent into a theatrical tour de force…[The playwright] shows herself to be a master of theatrical legerdemain…As its main character descends further and further into madness, Lizzimore puts us right in that vortex of her downward spiral…ANIMAL delivers the extraordinary.” —The Wrap. “…[an] unrelenting pressure cooker of a play…[with] brilliantly funny dialogue by Lizzimore…” —TheaterMania. “Toying with the line between perception and reality, ANIMAL takes us on a viciously playful tour through one woman’s mental crisis…[The play’s] action is thrilling…It’s also funny…Lizzimore has a sense for the ironies underlying mental health rehabilitation…The play seems to waltz through a minefield of overwrought material…which is a testament to the specificity and originality that Lizzimore brings to he"
— Theasy