Cuddles
By Joseph Wilde
Eve is a 13 year old vampire. She has never left her room and everything she knows about the world and herself comes from what her sister Tabby has told her.
Eve lives in a world without sunlight. A world where Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins and the cast of Dante’s Inferno are real; where princes with adjectives instead of names seduce beautiful princesses against the odds. A world crammed full of story book characters but with just one living, breathing human being to cuddle.
Eve does everything a good little vampire girl should, including drinking her (human) sister’s blood. But one day, Tabby tires of opening her veins and, in a breath, the whole world changes.
““Cuddles” is an absurdly cute title for this sensational little shocker.”
— Charles Isherwood (The New York Times)
““Cuddles,” directed with a sharp sense of suspense by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, is a vampire yarn on the surface, but beneath lies a dark story of guilt, the sometimes destructive force of love and how one mind may be irrevocably poisoned by another.”
— Charles Isherwood (The New York Times)
“Tautly directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, with an ominous set by James Turner, the show creates an atmosphere of suspenseful dread, though you may laugh at the matter-of-fact way in which Eve and Tabby handle their unusual living arrangement.”
— Elisabeth Vincentelli (New York Post)
Cuddles is funded by Arts Council England and produced by Arch 468. Supported by Ovalhouse.