When You Cure Me
by Jack Thorne

When You Cure Me Book Cover
When You Cure Me Cover

Synopsis

A painful - and painfully funny - play about being very young and in love - and coping with serious illness at the same time.

Rachel and Peter are seventeen.

They have been going out for six months.

It's love's young dream.

Then Rachel gets ill - seriously ill.

She doesn't want her mum to fuss; she doesn't want Alice to pretend she's her best friend; and she certainly doesn't want Alice's boyfriend telling bad jokes at her bedside.

The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn't know what it is that he wants.

When You Cure Me premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2005.

'In one of the year's finest pieces of new writing... a compassionate, gripping portrait of a fledgling relationship that is asked to bear more than many well-established marriages' Evening Standard

'painstakingly honest... acutely observant of the petty rivalries and jealousies that sickness provokes' Guardian

'[has] a merciless precision... a brave piece of writing that, with its damaged and angry heroine, unflinchingly shows us not a vision of saintly suffering, but a far more engagingly human struggle for survival' The Times

Publication

Year Published
2005
ISBN 10
1854599011
ISBN 13
9781854599018
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Illustrated
Print Length
96 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCCN
2006372640
LCC
PR6120.H67 W47 2005
eISBN 13
9781780012421
Print
When You Cure Me is a teenage play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in London, 2005. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781854599018 and an ISBN-10 of 1854599011.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books with an ISBN-13 of 9781780012421.

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