The Girl's Guide to Saving the World (NHB Modern Plays)

By Elinor Cook

A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful.
Jane and Bella are best friends. They're starting a revolution. But they're falling out of step.
Toby dreams of babies, buggies, and home improvement. But he can't even father his cat.
And that boy keeps telling Jane to take what she wants. But what is that, exactly?
Three thirty-somethings attempt to make sense of their own uncertain worlds. Even if it means losing sight of each other in the process.
Elinor Cook's The Girl's Guide to Saving the World was premiered as part of the HighTide Festival in April 2014.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Jun 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780014272

Elinor Cook

Elinor Cook won the George Devine Award 2013 for Most Promising Playwright. Her plays include: Pilgrims (HighTide Festival and Yard Theatre, London, 2016); The Rehearsal (LAMDA); Ten Weeks (Paines Plough/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre, London, 2015); The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World (HighTide Festival, 2014); The Boy Preference (National Theatre Connections); and this is where we got to when you came in (non zero one/Bush Theatre). She also wrote an episode of The Secrets for BBC One, directed by Dominic Savage.

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