Anatomia d'un suïcidi

Past, present and future resonate together

Anatomia d’un suïcidi is a triptych of three stories that play out simultaneously on stage. Three generations of women, played by Carol, Anna and Bonnie, are united by the same traumatic event: suicide.

Glòria Balañà directs one of the most poignant plays by Alice Birch, one of the most interesting contemporary voices in European drama. With poetic and surprising writing, she tells us of the survival of a painful matrilineal legacy. To what extent are we conditioned by heredity or are we really free in the face of fate itself?

Alice is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose recent plays include The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse / Clean Break); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court Theatre).
Alice wrote the critically acclaimed original series Dead Ringers, inspired by the Cronenberg film of 1988, for Annapurna and Amazon last year. She was the lead writer and an executive producer and the series starred Rachel Weisz. Previously Alice wrote on the TV adaptation of Normal People, alongside Sally Rooney and Mark O’Rowe, for which she and Sally were nominated for an Emmy. She also wrote on the TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends and she worked as Story Editor on Season 2 of Succession for HBO.
Her first feature was Lady Macbeth which won 5 British Independent Film Awards in 2017 including Best Screenplay. Her second feature was an adaptation of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film 4. She co-wrote The Wonder with Sebastián Lelio and Emma Donoghue, and most recently she wrote an adaptation of The End We Start From which was directed by Mahalia Belo and starred Jodie Comer.
Other Awards include: Winner Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018, George Devine Award (for Revolt. She said. Revolt again); Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting.
Alice is represented by United Agents in the UK and by UTA in the US.