Hard to Swallow

New edition with bonus features

Mark Wheeller

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Salamander Street Limited
02 July 2020

Plays & playscripts; Social discrimination; Eating disorders & therapy; Coping with eating disorders

2020 Edition

Suitable text for GCSE 9-1Drama

Based on Maureen Dunbar's award-winning book and film Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia Nervosa. Catherine Dunbar died in 1984, after a seven-year battle against anorexia nervosa. She was just twenty-two.

Mark Wheeller's potent documentary play uses the words from Catherine's diaries and also of those most closely involved and affected.

This 2020 edition includes a foreword by the late Maureen Dunbar, unseen extra scenes and a reflection by Mark, on the astonishing journey of this widely studied play since its first performances, including one by OYT on the Olivier Stage of the Royal National Theatre.

Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, BTEC, GCSE 75 minutes approximately 6 female, 3 male, 22 female/male, or 3 female and 2 male with doubling.

""This play reaches moments of almost unbearable intensity... naturalistic scenes flow seamlessly into sequences of highlystylisedtheatre... such potent theatre!"" Vera Lustig, The Independent

""Elegantly structured, highly informative, and imaginativelytheatrical. There wasn't a dry eye in the house."" Anne McFerran, Stage and Television Today

By: Mark Wheeller
Imprint: Salamander Street Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781913630249
ISBN 10: 1913630242
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 02 July 2020
Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Young adult , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Undergraduate , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Wheeller's most recent plays, Can You Hear Me Major Tom (Verbatim Bowie fan tribute play) and This Is For You (Immersive, Ronson inspired fictional, unplanned teenage pregnancy story) are now available. was released telling the dreadful true story of the murder of fourteen-year-old Breck Bednar. offer the incredible stories behind his most well-known plays and also offer ideas for study/rehearsing. ). comic (RoSPA 1994). Mark offers workshops to schools here and abroad. is now available.

Reviews for Hard to Swallow: New edition with bonus features

"""This play reaches moments of almost unbearable intensity... naturalistic scenes flow seamlessly into sequences of highly stylised theatre... such potent theatre!"" Vera Lustig, The Independent""Elegantly structured, highly informative, and imaginatively theatrical. There wasn't a dry eye in the house."" Anne McFerran, Stage and Television Today"