Our New Girl (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

A stingingly perceptive take on modern philosophies of parenthood...If 2012 brings us many better plays we'll be lucky indeed. --Independent

An unsettling, engrossing psychological drama...keeps you on tenterhooks and acted with great finesse. --Guardian

Sharply funny...delivering hard truths with unflinching directness.... Nancy Harris's disturbing new drama focuses on a very modern, middle-class misery. Financial Times

Nancy Harris's unnerving play about parenthood is both blackly amusing and intermittently chilling... with a touch of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and a touch of We Need to Talk About Kevin - Harris, especially in the second half, turns it into something more human and satisfying. --The Stage

A very modern psychodrama... Nancy Harris's savage new play takes less than sixty seconds to grab you by the throat so hard your eyes water. Our New Girl is a formidable slice of North London Gothic, with dialogue as sharp as a Sabatier and a sense of dread which swells to unbearable peaks. --Exeunt magazine

Sharply funny...delivering hard truths with unflinching directness.... Nancy Harris's disturbing new drama focuses on a very modern, middle-class misery. Financial Times

Nancy Harris's unnerving play about parenthood is both blackly amusing and intermittently chilling... with a touch of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and a touch of We Need to Talk About Kevin - Harris, especially in the second half, turns it into something more human and satisfying. --The Stage

Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's immaculate London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic surgeon husband, Richard, has embarked on his latest charitable mission to Haiti, leaving the heavily pregnant Hazel to cope with a failing business and a problem son. When a professional nanny arrives unannounced on her doorstep, Hazel finds her home under the shadow of a seemingly perfect stranger, and one who has an agenda of her own. A startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood. Nancy Harris' "Our New Girl" premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in January 2012. This volume also includes her short play "Little Dolls".