REASONS YOU SHOULD(N'T) LOVE ME

Kiln Theatre and Paines Plough present

REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME

written and performed by Amy Trigg

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Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run in 2021, Amy Trigg‘s ‘enormously entertaining’ (The Guardian) Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me returns to Kiln following a regional tour.

For a long time I didn’t know how it’d work.
Or what I’d be able to feel.
People would ask me if I could have sex and I’d feign shock and act wildly offended whilst secretly wanting to grab them by the shoulders and be like “I don’t know, Janet!” 

Juno was born with spina bifida and is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers, love, loneliness – and the feeling of being an unfinished project.

Joint winner of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020, Amy Trigg’s remarkable debut play Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me is a hilarious, heart-warming tale about how shit our wonderful lives can be.

Artwork Photographer Rebecca Need-Menear 
Artwork design by MUSE Creative Communications

Important Information

Age guidance: 14+

Captioned Performance: 17 November, 7.30pm
Post show Open Info session on The Women’s Prize for Playwriting: 22 November
Audio Described Performance: 24 November, 7.30pm
Post Show Q&A: 24 November, 7.30pm

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PRODUCTION INFORMATION 

This production contains flashing lights and loud noises (music and soundscapes simulating being in an MRI).

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Duration

80 minutes with no interval

Free Open Info session on the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023

Tuesday 22nd November, Post Show

Join Ellie Keel (Director of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting), Charlotte Bennett (Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough) and Amy Trigg (Joint Winner of Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020) to discuss the upcoming next Women’s Prize for Playwriting launching in 2023 and hear about how the process works, what the prize exists to achieve and ask any questions about applying. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting was founded in 2020 and is open to all female-identifying writers with a £12,000 award for the winner. Previous winners include; Amy Trigg for Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Ahlam for You Bury Me and Karis Kelly for Consumed.

All ticket holders for the performance on Tuesday 22nd November will be eligible to attend the event which will take place post-show in the Kiln Theatre auditorium.

FREE WORKSHOP: WRITING FOR DISABLED CHARACTERS WITH ATHENA STEVENS

WEDNESDAY 23RD NOVEMBER, 4-6PM
LOCATION: KILN THEATRE, JOHN LYON SPACE (GROUND FLOOR)

Led by director, actor, writer and social activist Athena Stevens, join this free writing workshop which seeks to expand the canon of great stories out there, not just about disability, but also about the complexity of the human condition.

For more information and to sign up, click here. 

‘A performance of mesmerising intensity.’

- New European

‘Trigg is terrific.’

- The Telegraph

‘enormously entertaining’

- The Guardian

‘Bravura one-woman show is a knock-out.’

- Evening Standard

‘A tour de force performance.’

- Ham & High

‘A hilarious, honest and heartwarming play which demands an audience.’

- WhatsOnStage

‘wonderfully heartfelt and beautifully delivered’

- Theatre Weekly

Written and Performed by

Amy Trigg

Creative Team

Charlotte Bennett

Director

Jean Chan

Designer

Guy Hoare

Lighting Designer

ELENA PEÑA

Composer & Sound Designer

Raffaela Pancucci

Associate Sound Designer

Hana Pascal Keegan

Associate Director

Athena Stevens

Assistant Director

Olivia Wakeford

Assistant to Athena Stevens

Production & Stage Management

Lucy Ventham

Company Stage Manager

Laura Draper

Cover Company Stage Manager

Julia Slienger

Deputy Stage Manager

Sophie Haliburn

Assistant Stage Manager (Book Cover)

Eilidh MacKenzie

Technician/Lighting Operator

Keshini Ranasinghe

Wardrobe Manager

Nicki Brown

Production Manager

Ryan Funnell

Tour Production Manager