"all of it" by Alistair McDowall , Vicky Featherstone and Sam Pritchard - extracts

This year, the Royal Court Theatre is shining a light on the writing of Alistair McDowall. As a place dedicated to contemporary writers, the London Institution is supporting him in his desire to venture into different territory, something more intimate and poetic. With these three monologues, all written for the same actress, Kate O’Flynn; the Manchester-born playwright has shifted his approach, his point of view – to an audience encounter with a sole person on stage. “While Northleigh, 1940 focuses on a being reduced to living in constrained spaces—from a bomb shelter to a small house—as in a series of small boxes, In Stereo fractures the existence of a woman at several points in her life, and all of it shows us a life without edges or frame.” Introduced to three female characters, we experience the ordinariness of their lives and the extraordinary imaginative worlds through which they escape the mundanity of being human. This artistic proposition from the writer was so beguiling as to convince Vicky Featherstone and Sam Pritchard to work together for the first time as co-directors to make it happen. A trilogy born from collaboration.

all of it by Alistair McDowall is published by Methuen Drama.