Direct Pressure

By Nicola Bradbury

Driving in outback Australia, forty five year old Linda hits a tree. Trapped and dying, she is found by twenty-five year old English backpacker Jeff. Unable to free her from the wreck and too far from help to leave her, Jeff must overcome his self-doubt and accept Linda’s mortality. Straight talking Mum Linda can see that Jeff thinks his life is on a road to nowhere and reaches out to him despite her pain. A product of today’s society, Jeff thinks that the important people are the rich and famous and believes greatness comes only in that guise. As they share pieces of everything about their lives, and philosophise about the nature of being, Linda’s life draws to an end and Jeff learns that living a full life is more important than simply avoiding death. Direct Pressure is a one-act contemporary play for anyone who has ever wondered why they sometimes feel so small and hopefully, leaves them feeling just a little bigger.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nicola Bradbury
• Release date: Nov 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370712564

Nicola Bradbury

Nicola Bradbury took up writing at a mature age and is slowly progressing through a Bachelor of Arts at Edith Cowan University. Her own life has been laced with ordinary tragedies, car accidents, infertility, surgeries, lots more surgeries and, emotional trauma, and humour is the one thing that always saves her and builds resilience in her. Nicola's stories are of the ordinary tragedies, sometimes they are her stories but most of the time they are not but, she always attempts to infuse them with humour because she cannot imagine anyone surviving life without it. Nicola is also passionate about social justice and challenging stereotypes. Nicola recently moved to a regional town in the West Australian Wheatbelt with her husband of 32 years. She is very happy to be living a more peaceful country life and is delighted to be back closer to her daughter. She does, however, miss living 5 minutes from the airport as she and her husband are avid travelers. Nicola has won or been a finalist in several international writing competitions including coming second in Noosa's one-act play festival 2013 which she was privileged to be able to see performed.

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