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About the Show

Ava Wong Davies’ play documents the blossoming relationship of a new couple.

At an old friend’s barbecue, she spies him, standing away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. She is half cut on beer with ketchup dribbling down her chin. They couldn’t be more different, but as they get to know one another, they fall in love.

Everything is perfect, until it isn’t ... or maybe it never was.

Ava Wong Davies’ new play was developed as part of an Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court.

Critic Reviews (11)

“ ‘Graceland’ feels like it came from someone who has sat through thousands of hours of contemporary theatre and amalgamated them together into one zeitgeistal totality.”
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“It has echoes of Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker story Cat Person but explores issues beyond gaslighting and toxic masculinity. Underneath, it’s a story about privilege.”
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"The script sounds almost novelistic in its language, beautiful at times. It is clear that Wong Davies is a delicate and thoughtful writer and there is daring in telling this explosive story so quietly."
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"Romance goes wrong in this murky monologue ... The piece ... dispenses information so cautiously. On my way home, reading the script, I was still trying to piece together the fragments."
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“I was happy to see the play; I’ll be happier still to read it.”
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“...this new play by Ava Wong Davies is a lethally precise anatomising of abuse, so stealthy that the word itself is never actually used.”
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"Sabrina Wu’s performance is as low key and subtle as the text itself... But somehow I would have preferred it if the text had been equally mucky, less literary and more direct."
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“This production, directed by Anna Himali Howard with Izzy Rabey, struggles to achieve lift-off.”
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