Love and Other Acts of Violence (NHB Modern Plays)

By Cordelia Lynn

A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around them, the couple's struggle to survive erupts into violence.
Cordelia Lynn's play Love and Other Acts of Violence is a subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in October 2021, directed by Elayce Ismail.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Oct 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781788504812

Cordelia Lynn

Cordelia Lynn is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg. She received the Berwin Lee Award, 2020, the Harold Pinter Award, 2017, and the Jerwood New Playwright, 2015. Her plays include: Sea Creatures (Hampstead Theatre, 2023); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2021); Hedda Tesman, after Henrik Ibsen (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / The Lowry, 2019); a version of Chekhov's Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre, London, 2019); Lela & Co. (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2015); Believers Anonymous (Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2012); and After the War, which has been performed in venues around the UK and abroad.

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