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    Swearing it’s true

    Mar 15, 2020 4 minutes
     by LINDA HERRICK

    Scottish writer Kieran Hurley’s play Mouthpiece arrives in New Zealand with a “frequent strong language” warning.

    The drama, centred on the relationship between Libby, a washed-up playwright in her forties, and Declan, a jittery working-class teenager, contains the usual range of four-letter words, but it also includes an insult to older women peculiar to the northern tongue.

    The spoken word itself actually sounds quite neutral, thanks to the Glaswegian accent: melodious, delightful and, occasionally, downright baffling.

    , winner of last year’s Fringe Festival Best of Edinburgh Award, has so far played only in Edinburgh and London, at the Soho Theatre, making New Zealand its

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