Birthday Book of Storms at La Mama Courthouse

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Set in a mysterious library where poems and writers come to life, as a day librarian and night librarian reveal secrets to a girl about the hidden history of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill.Birthday Book of Storms is an imagined retelling of events in the life of the iconic poets Plath and Hughes and artist Assia Wevill. Sent in a twilight magic realist world, the events of their fateful, tragic lives are investigated by a girl wanting to know who she is and her forgotten place in their story. The play highlights the choices these protagonists made, and the consequences of their choices on the girlThe play, a Griffin Award finalist, through fictional retelling is focused on the feminine in the Hughes saga.The play is a combination of research and imaginative speculation. It is beautifully written- Michael Brindley, Stage Whispers (on Fire in the Head, 2022)