Sarah Milton – författare

Do you get to design your boobs? Is it like Build-A-Bear?Meet Lucy and Jess; two best friends who obsess over boys, booze and their boobs. But when her mother dies of breast cancer, Lucy is forced to make a decision that will change her body forever. A story that spans ten years, Lucy Light is a powerful duologue between two women that offers a nostalgic look at our relationship with our bodies, the hereditary nature of cancer, and the strength of female friendships.My front crawl is a bit f***ing feminineTumble Tuck is a funny, brutal and honest one person piece about body image, mental health and relationships, that seeks to examine what it means to be successful in a world where medals matter.In these two complementary new plays, Sarah Milton offers up two strong female led narratives with dynamic, complex characters.This edition was published to coincide with the London production of Lucy Light at The Vault Festival 2019.

You definitely want to f*ck her but you don’t want to know her. You certainly don’t want to stay for breakfast…Sarah Milton’s new one-woman play tells the story of one woman’s immediate response to a sexual assault, fueled by a toxic friendship and crisis of identity.Two best friends are heading out for the night. Our protagonist, known as ‘She’, is hoping to win over her crush – Isaac the bartender, at their favourite joint. That night, her best friend Trixie decides to invitea group of men home that she fancies, promoting She as her sexy, obtainable friend, to help seal the deal. But when She wakes up the next day, confused, sore, lying next to a man she doesn’t recognise, she is forced to re-evaluate everything she thinks she knows about her friendships, identity and sexuality.This edition was published to coincide with the premiere at Park Theatre’s Come What May Festival 2022.Do you remember the club, Amanda? Do you remember the club?In addition to 4, this play text also includesMilton’s short spoken word piece The Night Tella which explores guilt, friendship and a night that should have ended in the chip shop.In these two complementary new pieces, Sarah Milton offers powerful, female led narratives with strong, complex characters.

The ‘baby boom’ generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort now entering mid and later life in Britain, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this ‘revolutionary cohort’ breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on an innovative combination of sensory ethnography in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and ‘new’ – or renewed - intimacies, among women in mid and later life.Beginning with women at a transition point, when newly single or newly dating in midlife, the chapters look back over life histories to examine prior relationship experiences at different life stages, and look forward to hopes for future intimacies. In the navigation of romance and new relationships we see the sensory, sensual and affective nature of heteronormativity, and gendered practices that are informed by memories of the past, the imagination of previous generations and class-based desires. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers, this book illuminates the intersections of age, class, and white normativity, making important contributions to our understanding of ageing and generation, intimacy and gender.

This book examines the romantic and intimate lives of the baby boom generation, often portrayed as pioneers of new ways of relating and family-making. As this cohort enters mid and later life, it is frequently claimed they are redefining ageing itself. Drawing on sensory ethnography in salsa classes and life-history interviews, the book explores women’s experiences of desire, romance, and renewed intimacies in midlife. Beginning with women at moments of transition—newly single or newly dating—it looks back over earlier relationships and forward to hopes for future connections. Their navigation of romance reveals the sensory and affective dimensions of heteronormativity and the gendered practices shaped by memory, generational expectations, and class. Challenging assumptions about baby boomers, the book highlights intersections of age, class, and white normativity, offering new insights into ageing, intimacy, and generation.

This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process.