How My Light Is Spent (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Alan Harris's clever, poignant play reads like an epic poem, its urgent dialogue and scene-setting narration weaving seamlessly together, its simple language belying the play's depth of content... a subtle, compelling, and beautifully crafted work. --The Reviews Hub

Alan Harris is an offbeat purveyor of big-hearted, small-town stories... How My Light is Spent is a lyrical two-hander in which the malls and call centres of south Wales seem as rich and strange as Dylan Thomas's Llareggub [the setting for Under Milk Wood. --Guardian

Alan Harris's is a uniquely theatrical voice... a quirky, relevant, optimistic humanising play about the socially unseen. --The Stage

Quirky, funny and charming... the dialogue bounces along wonderfully with a constant flow of witty dialogue and asides. --British Theatre Guide

Every Wednesday evening, Jimmy calls Kitty. For precisely nine minutes. At GBP1.20 a minute. Jimmy is 36, lives with his mum and works at Newport's only drive-through doughnut restaurant. Kitty is a phone sex worker living in the granny flat of a topiary enthusiast. Things were looking up for Jimmy when he met Kitty for the first time, but then he loses his job at the drive-in and starts to feel a strange tingling in his fingers. Kitty's not a psychologist yet, but she has some theories about why Jimmy has started to disappear. With Kitty giving some life-changing advice and Jimmy trying to reconcile himself to eventual invisibility, this unlikely duo succeeds in turning each other's world upside down.