Suzy Storck

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Another unbearably hot evening.8:54pm. Suzy Storck sits by the window on this hot and airless night, waiting for her husband to come home. Upstairs she can hear her children, yelling and clamouring at their bedroom door. She's locked them in. Suzy realises she never chose any of this. She wonders how she ended up here. After tonight, she might never find her way out. This stark play,written in disrupted, non-chronological verse, reflects the lonely, monotonous, and exhausting life of a mother of three. As the minutes of the hot night pass, the action flicks back to when she worked in a chicken packing factory, met her Hans Vassily Kreuz, and how she never really wanted children. Her life now resembles a production line, as she keeps everyone and everything serviced, a life commented on throughout by a Chorus. With a chilling ending, Suzy Storckis a stark comment of society's expectations of motherhood and family. It was performed in this English translation to critical acclaim, at the Gate Theatre, London, in 2017.

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Magali Mougel is a playwright and a teacher in the drama writing section at the ENSATT national theatre school in Lyon (France) where she was a student between 2008 and 2011. Suzy Storck was a finalist of the Grand Prize of Drama Literature in 2013. Mougel plays include Erwin Motor, devotion, La Dernire Battue, Lda, Gurillres ordinaires, Elle pas Princesse, Luis pas Hros and Poudre Noire. Her play The Lulu Projekt was selected for le Prix Godot 2017 des lycens. Chris Campbell has worked as Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre and Literar manager of the Royal Court Theatre. He has translated many French plays and in 2014 he was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. As an actor he has worked at many theatres including the National, the Royal Court, the Traverse Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep.