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Frances Poet is a Glasgow-based writer for the stage and screen.Her plays include: Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In (National Theatre of Scotland & Tron Theatre tour, 2026); Small Acts of Love (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 2025), Fruitcake (Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 2025); There Is No Room In Our Bathroom For Lewis Capaldi (PACE at Paisley Arts Centre, 2024); Sense and Sensibility (Pitlochry Festival Theatre and OVO, St Albans, 2024); Still (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2021); Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse, Leicester Curve & Queen's Theatre Hornchurch co-production, 2020); Fibres (Stellar Quines & Glasgow Citizens Theatre, 2019); Gut (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2018); Adam (National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, 2017); Faith Fall (Òran Mór and Bristol's Tobacco Factory, 2012) and What Put the Blood (Abbey Theatre, 2017). She has also written a number of free adaptations including Strindberg's Dance of Death (Citizens Theatre, 2016) and Molière's The Misanthrope (Òran Mór, 2014).Her TV and radio work includes River City and The Disappointed, aired on BBC Radio Scotland in 2015. Her short film, Spores, screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Bogoshorts Festival, Bogotá, in 2016.

'A resonant, broad meditation on the theme of identity… a compelling, hugely moving experience, and a show that blurs boundaries between theatrical artifice and real-life trauma to provocative effect'