Alpha, Beaty and Coral – three actresses in ridiculous dresses – bicker, chat, heckle and share tales of sex, lies and recipes in absurd isolation as an epic production unfolds around, and in spite of them.

Gradually their devastating truths are uncovered, leaving them stripped of all pretence in Kaite O’Reilly’s darkly comic play on women, war and the things we hide.

Peeling explores an entirely new narrative of theatre, weaving in audio description and sign language as a wholly natural part of the characters’ personal but resonant stories.

Peeling was commissioned by Graeae Theatre Company and premièred at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in February 2002

Published by Faber

72 pages

Condition; Very good