Compact Failure

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Rules are rules. But in a place where true friendship is gold dust, rules beg to be broken. Chelle and Denise go way back. Denise, with her loud mouth and long extensions, made the same-old-same-old of prison life not so bad. But when Densie leaves, with no goodbye, no nothing, Chelle figures she's just run out of friendships. Then Ruthie walks in... The story of their friendship unfolds in Jennifer Farmer's sharp and richly textured play. A production of Compact Failure by Clean Break Theatre Company, opened at Manchester Contact in October 2004, followed by a UK tour.

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An honours graduate of New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, Jennifer is a playwright and live art performer who has written and created work extensively for performance. Her work includes clean (BBC Radio 3, 2003), Compact Failure (Clean Break, Arcola Theatre and national tour, 2004), 270 (Paines Plough, Young Vic, 2004), A Million Different People (BBC Radio 4, 2005), words, words, words (Tricycle Theatre, 2006) , Bulletproof Soul (Birmingham Rep, 2007; short-listed for the 2008 Brian Way Award), Stutter (Hotbed Festival, 2008), Urban Dreams (London Bubble, 2008), These Four Streets (Birmingham Rep, 2009), thefadingcity (Southbank Centre, 2010), .54 (Stour Space/View Tube, 2011), Truth or Dare (Belgrade Theatre, 2012), terra firma (Hackney WickED Festival, 2012), Eating Our Words (Camden Peoples Theatre, 2012), delay (DegreeArt Gallery, 2013) and Waltzing Tomatoes (Athica Gallery, USA, 2013 and international festivals). She is represented by Matt Connell at Berlin Associates (www.berlinassociates.com)