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So good and so raw that avoiding it might be the wisest course: Sea Wall reviewed

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If you didn’t know Andrew Scott was a performer you might assume you’d stumbled on a video blog by an anguished parent: Sea Wall by Simon Stephens 
issue 06 June 2020

Sea Wall, by Simon Stephens, is a half-hour monologue about grief performed by Andrew Scott. The YouTube clip has been viewed more than 250,000 times. The habitual quirks and irritants of Stephens’s writing are all here: the inept jokes, the laddish swearing, the fascination with 1970s pop, the preference for males over females and the improbable back stories of the characters.

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