Polly Barton and Susannah Dickey in Conversation
Mick Lally Theatre, Ireland
Polly Barton’s What Am I, a Deer? asks what it means to lose yourself, as a young woman in Frankfurt set on reinvention, encounters a nice-eyed stranger and is catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession. Rendering the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, this novel is propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Susannah Dickey’s i nto the wreck asks how you mourn someone you never really knew. With their father’s funeral only days away, Anna, Gemma and Matthew are consumed by their everyday concerns, from not-quite-exclusive boyfriends to overbearing mothers. With trademark wit and empathy, Susannah Dickey explores the knotty complexities of one family's bonds.
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