Fixing Gwen
Sam Bobrick
People, Places and Things
by Duncan Macmillan
Off-Broadway West End
Highlights
120 mins Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Multicultural Casting Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) Opportunity for Spectacle Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
Awards & Recognition
Drama Desk Award Olivier Award
Nominee: 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Nominee: 2016 WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play Nominee: 2018 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
Synopsis
Emma is in rehab.
Her first step is to admit that she has a problem.
But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else.
She needs to tell the truth, but she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing.
When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
Press Reviews
"A glittering paean to booze and drugs delivered as a visceral, mournful howl to the skies. The play’s most audacious trick is that it does not pretend that there aren’t some serious upsides to hedonism."
— The Telegraph (UK)
"People, Places and Things... has a larger agenda than capturing the terrors and setbacks an addict suffers getting to rehab and staying there."
— Jesse Green, The New York Times
"A vibrant play that draws parallels between theatre and rehab… Macmillan also offers a critique of a society in which addiction is partly a response to the surrounding chaos, and where the generic uplift of marketing-speak pervades everything from politics to religion."
— The Guardian (UK)
"Besides being a portrait of addiction and recovery, People, Places and Things is perceptive about trauma and its consequences, as well as the roles so many of us adopt in order to deflect the truth."
— Evening Standard (London)
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Konstantin |
| Stage Manager |
| Crew Members |
| Cast Members |
| Understudy |
| Dressers |
| Men |
| Paul |
| Foster |
| Nurses |
| Doctor |
| Therapist |
| Mark |
| Charlotte |
| Jodi |
| Shaun |
| Laura |
| Emmas |
| Clubbers |
| Young Woman |
| Dressers |
| Woman |
| Paramedics |
| Doctors |
| Nurse |
+ 7 more characters
Videos
People, Places & Things – National Theatre Trailer
Publication
People, Places and Things is a play written by Duncan Macmillan and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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