A darkly humorous play about the people behind the tabloid stories of migrant workers and sex-trafficking in today’s Europe. The first play in English by an award-winning writer who is well-known in her native Croatia.
London 2007: an aspiring actress from Croatia, a Serbian stand-up comedian, a Bulgarian mafioso, a Norwegian journalist, a sex-trafficking victim… Big city, big dreams, big fall.
Tena Ĺ tiviÄŤić’s play Fragile! was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in September 2007.
‘A real find… an acute ear for the subtleties of language… strongly recommended’
— The Times
‘Powerfully depicts the real lives behind the new wave of eastern European immigration to the capital’
— Time Out