Again (NHB Modern Plays)

A once close-knit family of four is reunited after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right. In this touching and comic drama, Stephanie Jacob delves into the turmoil, love and compromises of kinship. Again resets the clock on one family's history as Tom and Louise - now divorced - and their adult children, Adam and Izzy, negotiate what they think they know and tussle for what they think they want. Moving, funny and instantly recognisable, Again was first performed at Trafalgar Studios, London, in February 2018, in a production by Mongrel Thumb, and directed by Hannah Price.

Stephanie Jacob is a writer and actor. Her first play, Harry's Window, about sibling rivalry among the over-eighties, had readings at the New Ambassadors, Soho Theatre and the National Theatre Studio, where Stephanie has subsequently been a Writer-on-Attachment. The Quick, about restorative justice, was produced at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London. Her radio play, A Night Visitor (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama), won the Writers' Guild Best Radio Drama Award. As an actor, Stephanie has worked at the National Theatre, the RSC, in repertory and touring theatre, and in the West End.