Splinter

“I know we said for better and for worse. And when I said it then I really meant it. But you don’t know then. Just how much worse it can be.”

Maggie is an impulsive free spirit and would like to stay that way, so when she meets Jac, she struggles to fulfil Jac’s need for a stable relationship. But after she loses her job, Maggie and Jac must face the fact that an early onset Dementia diagnosis is going to
change the shape of both of their lives forever. But Maggie has never needed anybody before and the relationship starts to fracture as both try to hold on. From Play Nicely Theatre and written by Martha Loader, Splinter is about love and memory and what happens when you start to lose both.

Written by Martha Loader (Bruntwood Judge’s Prize winner for Bindweed), directed by Amy Wyllie (The Velveteen Rabbit, The Secret Garden) produced by Karen Goddard (Satellites, Our White Skoda Octavia) and from Play Nicely Theatre (The Mechanicals Present..)

Supported by The Seagull Theatre and Arts Council England.

Suitable for ages 14 +
Warnings: explicit language, sexual references, loud noises.