Overview
Winner of the Critics Circle Award at the Adelaide Fringe Festival
A searing drama about bureaucratic chaos in a post-Roe America. After her transcontinental flight is diverted to Dallas, a pregnant woman inexplicably finds herself trapped in a room with a female lawyer who will decide her future. Can Nessa escape this Kafkaesque world of legal precedents and constantly changing laws?
Casting & Production
Casting
NESSA — female, late 30s to early 40s.
VAL — female, 40s to 50s
Setting
Time
Next week. While the pandemic is no longer the top story, the world is still a mess, possibly even worse.
Place
A windowless industrial room in Houston, TX. Or is it Dallas?
Reviews
★★★★★ “The punch of a state-of-the-nation epic…with the twists of a trenchant
thriller.“
—The Telegraph
★★★★★ “A powerhouse, thoroughly contemporary political theatre, tightly
realised.”
—The Advertiser
★★★★★ “Blood of the Lamb isn’t a dystopian tale of warning about who we
might become, but one of open-your-eyes-because-this-is-who-we-are.”
—In Review
★★★★ “Acutely tense drama.”
—The Guardian
★★★★★ “A powerful piece of activism, an excellently-crafted play.”
—Fest Magazine
★★★★★ “Beautiful, suspenseful script.”
—British Theatre Guide
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