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Apex Predator (Playscript)
John Donnelly’s brilliant new play is at once a supernatural thriller and a sophisticated critique of the way we live now.
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Summary
We’re their food source and we’re heading towards extinction.
Mia is going out of her mind. Her baby won’t feed; Alfie is being bullied at school; Joe is working long night shifts at a job he won’t talk about. The upstairs neighbour keeps blasting music at 2 a.m. Another mutilated body has been found floating in the Thames.
Then Mia meets Ana, Alfie’s art teacher, who proposes an unconventional route to empowerment.
Apex Predator opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2025.
Critic Reviews
John Donnelly’s giddily original drama about postpartum depression and also vampirism . . . is pretty damn great, a serious story told in a wickedly entertaining way.
Critic Reviews
Darkly unsettling . . . Underlying it all is a single, crystalline question: suppose a woman threatened by the world became the most terrifying figure on it? And underlying that is the question: what if it’s all in her mind? . . . Provocative and fun.
JohnDonnelly
John Donnelly is a past winner of the Tom Erhardt Award, the PMA Award for Best New Writer and the NSDF Sunday Times Playwriting Award. His plays include The Pass (Royal Court), a version of The Seagull (Headlong/UK Tour), Little Russians (Tricycle Theatre/ First Blast: Proliferation Season), The Knowledge (Bush Theatre), Encourage the Others (Almeida Projects), Songs of Grace and…
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