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Carrie

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Southwark Playhouse · London

Premiered 1988 at Royal Shakespeare Theatre

A bullied teenager discovers she can move objects with her mind.

HorrorDramaTragedyComing of Age
The story

Carrie White is a teenage outsider who longs to fit in but is bullied at school and tightly controlled at home by her loving but cruel mother. As Carrie begins to understand her telekinetic power, the people around her continue to push and manipulate her, turning an ordinary struggle for acceptance into a supernatural threat.

In the room

A small-town New England high-school thriller that sets public bullying against Carrie’s controlled home life, then lets her telekinetic power turn social pressure into supernatural danger.

Good fit if you like

supernatural thrillers, troubled parent-child relationships and outsider protagonists.

Details

From 1 May 2015

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