Stitching

We will fix it.We will mend it...In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness.Stitching opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2002 and transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, on 12 September 2002."e;Explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy ... Neilson's writing has a terrible beauty"e; Sunday Times"e;Startlingly rich and challenging, Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust"e; Time Out "e;Shattering, shocking...a serious, persuasive account of the blind alleys love can lead us down"e; Daily Telegraph"e;A characteristically brave and brutal offering"e; Independent"e;A deeply mesmerising, if shocking, experience as a couple smashes through taboo after taboo in a harrowing sexual tug of war"e; Evening Standard