Synopsis
Rainer
$15.99 Published by Methuen Drama
0 Male 1 Female
Some guys listen to music, some guys like to sing. I like to work people out
Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across London, delivering food to whoever will summon her
From luxury flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her head, re-imagining London as one of her favourite sci-fi films or Scorsese’s Taxi Driver
She loves her life
Until reality starts to slip and she begins forgetting stuff - even the city she knows so well
And when her one-time lover Jack disappears, when her mum keeps on calling, she has to ask herself - is everything really okay?
A one-woman show partly inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milkwood, Rainer is a celebration of a city and the people within it, seen and unseen
It was a finalist for Samuel French’s Off-Broadway Award, longlisted for Theatre Uncut’s Political Playwriting Award and winner of the Prix Royal competition in Paris
This edition was published to coincide with the production at the Arcola Theatre, London, in June 2022.