A hypnotic work of fiction exploring an actor’s unraveling psyche in the moments before she takes the stage.
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“A seductive, high intensity exploration of love, grief and the transformative exhilaration of art.”—Eimear McBride
“Beautiful . . . Such Stuff stayed with me long after the curtain had fallen.”—Zoe Dubno
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In a theater in London, an hour before the curtain rises, an actor must perform the delicate act of slipping out of her own identity and into another. As she prepares to transform into Miranda, the daughter of Prospero in The Tempest, she struggles to escape her real-life role as a grieving daughter.
Today, on the anniversary of her father’s death, which is also her birthday, the past collides with the present as she thinks back over her life with her father, which has shaped her sense of self and brought her to this moment. While the passions and dramas of her fellow actors play out backstage, she must cast off her memories of the day—where she’s been, what she’s done—to step out of the wreck of herself and become the daughter to another charismatic father.
Gripping and impossible to put down, Such Stuff is a literary feat that manages, in its briefness, to carry an emotional force that lingers long after the final line. It is an utterly original debut by a mesmerizing new voice.
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Hannah Morrish is an actor and writer who has performed at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Barbican, and in the West End. Such Stuff is her debut novel. She lives in London, England.