The Wasp

A twisting two-hander, a psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Belongings.Heather and Carla haven’t seen each other since school. Their lives have taken very different paths – Carla lives a hand-to-mouth existence while Heather has a high-flying career, husband and a beautiful home. And yet, here they are in a café having tea and making awkward conversation. That is until Heather presents Carla with a bag containing a significant amount of cash and an unexpected proposition…Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s electric new thriller asks how far beyond the playground we carry our childhood experiences and to what lengths some people are willing to go to in order to come to terms with them.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm is a playwright and comedy writer. Her play Belongings was produced at the Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios in 2011 to universal critical acclaim and was shortlisted for The Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award and the Whatsonstage.com Best New Play Award. Other stage work includes five Edinburgh shows, in which she also performed, as part of Trippplicate (with Katie Lyons and Verity Woolnough), Epidemic and Platform for the Old Vic and new commissions for Cleanbreak and Firehouse Productions. In 2013 she was chosen as a member of the Soho Six (Soho Theatre) and is currently under commission with them. Her work has been performed at many theatres including The Old Vic, The Bush, Theatre503, Lyric Hammersmith and Bolton Octagon’ and Trafalgar Studios.

Heather and Carla haven't seen each other since school. Their lives have taken very different paths - Carla lives a hand-to-mouth existence while Heather has a high-flying career, husband and a beautiful home. And yet, here they are in a cafe having tea and making awkward conversation. That is until Heather presents Carla with a bag containing a significant amount of cash and an unexpected proposition - Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's electric new thriller asks how far beyond the playground we carry our childhood experiences and to what lengths some people are willing to go to in order to come to terms with them.

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