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A play based on Maureen Dunbar’s award winning novel and film “Catherine” and charts her daughter’s uneven battle with anorexia and the family’s difficulties in coping with it all.
Told mainly through the words of Catherine and her family, this uncompromising and sensitive script is equally as popular in schools as it is on the one act play circuit - Hard To Swallow has sold over 15,000 copies in the UK since its publication in 1990 and has become a very popular performance in schools.
This dramatisation uses the words from Catherine’s diaries and also of those most closely involved and affected.
Since its successful performance at the Royal National Theatre it has gone on to be performed all over the world to much acclaim achieving regular success in One Act Play Festivals. It’s simple narrative style means that it is equally suitable as a class reader.
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There are extracts from this play on the excellent DVD ‘Wheeller Plays Exemplified’, as directed by professional director Tim Ford.
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