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The Mishmash is a collection of plays. Each piece explores something unique; the erosion of the self ensnared in a grim medieval keep, a satirical self-help guide denouncing discrimination, a surreal monologue set within the mindscape of a protagonist unraveling due to chronic loneliness, a duologue-with-monologues piece authentically representing sapphic longing and the yearning to be truly understood whilst bound within a friendship dynamic, the loneliness a protagonist feels when ill, a protagonist being misunderstood by those around her, of how profound loneliness feels like a dark void and a protagonist wondering what the alternative outcome would have been, the trying to connect with people but receiving only crumbs, nothing, and disappointment as a result, the misplacement of the mask that was once adorned, and a protest against the illegality of tails being docked. Also embellished with some extra scrap plays: a letter to a friend, a pitch about a French New Wave film, a queer awakening, and the suppression of a protagonist’s gay self that she had repressed for years out of fear of being rejected by her loved ones and those around her.

It contains 14 stageplays

yeah diverse

the mishmash title is to say these are diverse works but they are together