Mouthpiece

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Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. Twilight. A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever. Libby whiles away her days in New Town cafes and still calls herself a writer but shes not put pen to page for years. Declan is a talented young artist struggling with a volatile home life in Pilton. As they form an uneasy friendship, complicated by class and culture, Libby spots an opportunity to put herself back on track, and really make a difference. She needs Declans story. In all its messy, painful detail. But does she have the right to it When does poverty portrayal become poverty porn Often startling, sometimes shocking and threaded with unexpected humour, Mouthpiece takes a frank and unflinching look at the different Edinburghs which often exist in ignorance of one another, and examines whether its possible to tell someone elses story without exploiting them along the way.

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Kieran Hurley is an award-winning writer, performer, and theatre-maker based in Glasgow whose work has been presented throughout the UK and internationally. His plays Beats and Heads Up won the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, and he has twice won a Fringe First Award. His other plays include Square Go, Rantin and Chalk Farm.