The Performance

''Quietly transformational''
The Times

''A tour de force... I can''t recommend this too highly''
Patrick Gale

''Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read''
Daily Mail

''A potent meditation on the intensity of women''s lives''
Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend

''A miracle... Engaging and evocative''
Washington Post

''I loved and admired The Performance... Unmissable''
Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters

''Lively and intimate... The way Thomas plays with the reader is a sort of genius''
Guardian

''Thomas writes these women with such wisdom and compassion, that by the end we are all transformed''
Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pr