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Stop Girl review – journalist Sally Sara’s debut play crawls into the dark heart of trauma – The Guardian
Semi-autobiographical stage work from Walkley-winning foreign correspondent is smartly structured but almost too grounded
From the beginning, we know the collapse is inevitable.
Suzie (Sheridan Harbridge) is finishing up a contract reporting from Afghanistan. We only live a small portion of that time with her during a supermarket bombing and while others around her are shaken, Suzie is stoic.
The experience, of course, is more complex than that the job has affected her more profoundly than she can yet admit. Suzie, however, is understandably determined to avoid that pain for as long as she possibly can: she puts on…
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