While You Lie

by Sam Holcroft

A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall. Ana calls Edward’s bluff on their disintegrating relationship and enters a truthful world where honesty is celebrated in all of its dangerous glory. While for Helen, a homemaker, beneath the civilized veneer of her life, a dark truth threatens to surface.

Genres: Plays

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2010

Reviews

[Doug]

This is now the second of Holcroft's plays I've read, and like her debut, Cockroach, it started off well enough - but then devolved rapidly into weird nonsense - culminating with an onstage Caesarean section, which I am sure NO ONE in the audience really wanted to witness.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/201...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNWd7...

[Cora]

I have no words to explain what I have read...

[Christopher]

Visceral and exciting. A dark look at the extremes that people could theoretically go to in order to avoid losing something important to them.