Mouthpieces

Mouthpieces

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant plays - collected in one work, Mouthpieces. Each play depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in in Eimear's vivid, original and sharp-witted style. In 'The Adminicle Exists', we hear the inner voice of a woman who saves her troubled, dangerous partner; in 'An Act of Violence', a woman is quizzed about her reaction to a man's death; in 'The Eye Machine', the character 'Eye' tells of her imprisonment, flickering through a slideshow of female stereotypes.
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Shreya Punj@theeditorrecommends
3 stars
Jan 24, 2023

Three playlets—powerful, evocative, violent and sporadic. My favourite is the first titled The Adminicle Exists. This made my heart squeeze. The others? I think I just didn’t “get” them.

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Sophie Davies@sophiedavies1411
2 stars
Dec 13, 2021

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