‘I hope audiences leave the theatre determined to listen to themselves, love themselves, and talk to others about their problems...What I really hope they don’t do is call their exes.’

‘I was living in NY and had friends in the tech industry, and I started to notice that they were all throwing around the word Disruption endlessly. It was like a collective mantra in that world. Everyone seemed to be constantly asking what can we disrupt?’

It took fourteen years for Athena Stevens to write Schism, a new play now on at Park 90. Her inspiration? The unhealthy pattern of codependency and emotional unavailability she noticed permeating her friendships and relationships. Schism is a frank exploration of what went wrong, over and over again, over all those years.The play follows a twenty-year relationship between Harrison and Catherine as they navigate several life-stages and power shuffles. What started out as a teacher-student relationship soon becomes sexual when Catherine goes off to university, but whe…

Snakes have a gestation period of about three months.Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes, which opens in Park 200 on 23 March, has had a gestation period of eight years.It was November 2008. Dudley Hinton was listening to a Radio 4 interview with Dan Everett. A linguistics professor and former missionary, Everett is one of the few (about six) outsiders fluent in the langu