The smallest tremble. A smashed glass. The ripping apart of space and time.

Three couples. Thirty years. Mothers and daughters. Lovers, partners, husbands and wives. Babies, teenagers, birthdays, holidays, honeymoons, fireworks, near-misses, rain. This is a play about all of it.

SHED: EXPLODED VIEW won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2019. Partly inspired by Cornelia Parker’s stunning artwork Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, it was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2024.

This play & other Bruntwood Prize-winners are available to buy from our publishing partner Nick Hern Books.