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A play about protest, power and protecting yourself, Stef Smith's Remote was commissioned as part of the 2015 National Theatre Connections Festival and proved enormously popular with youth theatres and college companies across the UK, returning for the 2023 Connections Festival.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205729452210,"sku":"9781848425057","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848425057_60edde54-870f-4c53-a86a-6ce1a4368bde.jpg?v=1786029397"},{"product_id":"9781848429505","title":"Nora : A Doll's House","description":"‘You’ve lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done…?’Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.   Henrik Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new version by Stef Smith reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women's suffrage, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?Nora : A Doll's House was first produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2019, at Tramway, Glasgow. A new production opened at the Young Vic, London, in February 2020.   It was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to celebrate women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307902939509,"sku":"9781848429505","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848429505.jpg?v=1786029537"},{"product_id":"9781839043833","title":"The Outrun","description":"A young woman finds herself washed up back home on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney, trying to rebuild her life after a decade of addiction.   The life she has left behind in London, with all its intoxicating temptations, has pushed her to the point of destruction. Now there is wildness of a different form – an alluring wilderness that she must learn to navigate.   Speaking to the impact of isolation and loneliness and – ultimately – the resilience of people, Amy Liptrot's bestselling memoir The Outrun has been adapted for the stage by Stef Smith. Directed by Vicky Featherstone, and co-produced by The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and Edinburgh International Festival, it premiered at the 2024 Festival.   Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun was a Sunday Times bestseller, BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome and Ondaatje Prizes.   'One of Scotland's boldest chroniclers of contemporary women's lives' The Stage on Stef Smith'A lyrical, brave memoir… compelling' Guardian on The Outrun","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307965657461,"sku":"9781839043833","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839043833_4d587197-230f-4eaa-a153-cdcd42344067.jpg?v=1786028049"},{"product_id":"9781848425286","title":"Human Animals","description":"In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. The mice are scratching between walls, the pigeons are diseased and the foxes are beginning to rule the streets. The problem is growing. It's contagious. It has to be stopped, before it's too late.   Stef Smith's play Human Animals premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2016, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308578451829,"sku":"9781848425286","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848425286_987e8793-45fe-4f56-8416-490f717abc1c.jpg?v=1786029404"},{"product_id":"9781848425064","title":"Swallow","description":"‘Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?’Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another – if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct.   Passionate, painful and playful, Stef Smith’s Swallow takes a long, hard look at the extremes of everyday life. The play premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received a Scotsman Fringe First Award. It was directed by Traverse Artistic Director Orla O’Loughlin, and featured original music by LAWholt.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313069207925,"sku":"9781848425064","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848425064_c1a1d319-cce8-43c7-a112-c44feda22d19.jpg?v=1786029398"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-stef-smith.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}