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Red Like Fruit

Meet Lauren, a journalist in the midst of covering a high-profile domestic violence case while a growing sense of unease pervades her thoughts. Now meet Luke, whom Lauren has asked to tell her story to the audience. Through Luke’s voice, Lauren reflects on buried memories of sexual experiences from her adolescence. Are these experiences just a part of being a woman, or are they trauma? And does Luke have the authority to help her understand her own life?

From the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning playwright of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Hannah Moscovitch is at the height of her dramatic powers in this masterful provocation about the role men’s voices play in women’s stories. Through an ingenious metatheatrical device, Red Like Fruit courageously interrogates the messy contradictions and complexities of complicity, consent, power, and truth in the post #MeToo era.

Reviews

“An expert forensic search into the most ungraspable truths of womanhood.”



“What makes this new play brilliant, however, is not merely the story itself, but how that story is told. Moscovitch forces her audience to confront their own prejudice. She asks us to question who we believe — and why.”



“A simply delivered and devastating tale of the background radiation of sexism and sexual assault that becomes inextricably baked into women’s identities.”



A true masterpiece”

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“The feminist movement needs a dose of medicine . . . Hannah Moscovitch’s latest work, Red Like Fruit, is a horse pill.”



“[Red Like Fruit] leaves behind a profound uncertainty about how far we can protect women from exploitation while leaving space in our culture for the daft, anarchic energy of real sexual desire. Moscovitch’s writing, though, is dazzlingly precise, vivid and thought-provoking throughout . . . Moscovitch’s words shine through with a magnificent clarity, searching and searching again for some kind of truth among the overheated culture wars of our time.”



“Written by Hannah Moscovitch, and the finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this super-smart and devastating two-hander is both formally and narratively galvanising . . . Red Like Fruit is slippery stuff, playing with ideas around consent and probing how we hear women’s stories. In the process, it does something remarkable; it gives us all the voice to tell about the things we feel that nobody wants to hear.”



Awards

  • Scotsman Fringe First Award 2025, Winner
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2024, Nominated
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    Dimensions:

    64 Pages
    8.38in * 5.38in * 0.25in
    .25lb
    0.25lb

    Published:

    October 21, 2025

    ISBN:

    9780369105646

    Book Subjects:

    DRAMA / Women Authors

    Language:

    eng

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