There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn’t know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn’t want to look.She meets him at an old friend’s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn’t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn’t. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies’s new play Graceland was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at London's Royal Court Theatre, in February 2023.

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn''t know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn''t want to look.She meets him at an old friend''s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn''t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn''t. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies''s new play Graceland was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at London''s Royal Court Theatre, in February 2023.

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn''t know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn''t want to look.She meets him at an old friend''s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn''t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn''t. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies''s new play Graceland was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at London''s Royal Court Theatre, in February 2023.

"A tender little green shoot of a piece" Lyn Gardner1996. A young mother walks out of a small house in Shepherd’s Bush and doesn’t look back.2019. A daughter lies in a bath and stares at a crack in the ceiling.Joy and EJ prepare for their first meeting in twenty-two years. They run, they bathe, they inhale, they wait.i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) is the debut play by acclaimed theatre critic Ava Wong Davies: a lyrical interlinking of monologues devoted to blood ties, the cycle of trauma, and what we inherit from our parents.

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn’t know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn’t want to look.She meets him at an old friend’s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn’t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn’t. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies’s new play Graceland was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at London's Royal Court Theatre, in February 2023.

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn''t know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn''t want to look.She meets him at an old friend''s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn''t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn''t. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies''s new play Graceland was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at London''s Royal Court Theatre, in February 2023.

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn''t know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn''t want to look.She meets him at an old friend''s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn''t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn''t. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies''s new play Graceland was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at London''s Royal Court Theatre, in February 2023.

"A tender little green shoot of a piece" Lyn Gardner1996. A young mother walks out of a small house in Shepherd’s Bush and doesn’t look back.2019. A daughter lies in a bath and stares at a crack in the ceiling.Joy and EJ prepare for their first meeting in twenty-two years. They run, they bathe, they inhale, they wait.i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) is the debut play by acclaimed theatre critic Ava Wong Davies: a lyrical interlinking of monologues devoted to blood ties, the cycle of trauma, and what we inherit from our parents.