Happy Now? (NHB Modern Plays)

By Lucinda Coxon

A painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty's mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty's running out of time for big changes.
'the best new play to have arrived on a British stage for at least a year... unsparing observation, baleful humour and underlying compassion... a richly rewarding gem of a play' - Telegraph
'wonderfully funny and painfully accurate... hits nail after nail on the head' - Independent
'Everything about the play rings with a horrible truth, and the writing is consistently funny and flecked with pain' - Whatsonstage.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: May 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781780017815

Lucinda Coxon

Lucinda Coxon is an English playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: a version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre, London, 2022); Alys, Always, adapted from the novel by Harriet Lane (Bridge Theatre, London, 2019); Herding Cats (Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010, and Hampstead Theatre, 2011); and Happy Now? (National Theatre, 2008). Her screenplays include The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Little Stranger.

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