The Breach

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They won't even know we won this game. Only you and I will know that weTopped Their Love.

Love has no limits for the Diggs siblings: there's nothing that seventeen-year oldJude won't do to keep her younger brother Acton safe. Growing up in theturbulence of 1970s America, Jude works nights and weekends to pay thebills, just so that they can stay together with their mother. But when Acton'stroublesome pals form a club in their basement, a foolish game threatens toupend Jude's plans and derail their lives forever. Jude will do anything to protecther brother, but someone may have to pay the price.

As trust and loyalty are put on the line, hindsight proves devastating in NaomiWallace's riveting drama.

The Breach opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in May 2022.

Author Bio

Naomi Wallace's Finborough Theatre productions include And I And Silence, which subsequently transferred to Signature Theater, New York City. Theatre includes In the Heart of America (Bush Theatre), Slaughter City (Royal Shakespeare Company), One Flea Spare (Public Theater, New York City), The Trestle at Pope Lick Creekand Things of Dry Hours (New York Theatre Workshop), The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East(Public Theater, New York City), and Night is a Room (Signature Theater, New York City). Naomi has been awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize twice, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, the Obie Award and the Horton Foote Award. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts development grant. In 2013, Naomi received the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, and in 2015 an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her play One Flea Spare was recently incorporated into the permanent repertoire of the French National Theatre, La Comdie-Franaise. Only two American playwrights have been added to La Comdie's repertoire in two hundred years, the other being Tennessee Williams.