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The Scent of Roses

Zinnie Harris

You’d be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something. Of being alive.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571376025
Date Published
03.03.2022
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Summary

You’d be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something. Of being alive.

The Scent of Roses begins with a wife who takes her husband hostage in order to have an honest conversation. This simple, transgressive act, and her demand for a straight answer, sparks a chain of conversations, interrogations, obfuscations and revelations, as they and those around them try to discover what is real and who they can trust in a post-truth world.
Zinnie Harris’s The Scent of Roses premieres at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2022.

Critic Reviews

'Sometimes funny, frequently disorientating, it is a bold drama that worries away at its theme to create a compelling study of evasion and responsibility.'

Guardian
Critic Reviews

'Zinnie Harris’ darkly mordant new play...oozes great performances.'

The Stage
Critic Reviews

'A dark comedy with a hard dramatic core that is very funny and very sad in equal measure'

Arts Reviews Edinburgh
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Zinnie Harris’s plays include the multi-award-winning Further than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre/Tron Theatre; winner of the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Award, 2001 John Whiting Award, Edinburgh Fringe First Award), How to Hold Your Breath (Royal Court Theatre; joint winner of the Berwin Lee Award), The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland; joint winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression…

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