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True Cut: Epilogue

By: David Alderson October 15, 2019March 14, 2020
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Chrissie’s endless / Sisyphean sentence— / the insatiable cycle / of haemo-dialysis— / is finally done. / For today.

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True Cut 9

By: David Alderson October 9, 2019March 14, 2020
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time is not the great healer / that some would suppose: but rather a dealer in counterfeit truth / a practiced deceiver in layers of story

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True Cut 8

By: David Alderson October 1, 2019March 14, 2020
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The tangle of tubes that’s kept Chrissie alive / for the past seven days, now scares her to death

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True Cut 7

By: David Alderson September 23, 2019March 14, 2020
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All through a long, lonely, longing night’s vigil / Jo is engulfed by a darkening ocean / of grief, guilt and shame, swept / out on a rip tide of rising despair

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True Cut 6

By: David Alderson September 16, 2019March 14, 2020
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Listen: / the theatre suite’s in trauma: / withdrawn, and silent.

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True Cut 5

By: David Alderson September 9, 2019March 14, 2020
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Rise and fall/  And rise.    And fall/  Now slave to a rhythm/beyond her control/  Arms stretched wide/  in trusting surrender,/Chrissie waits…

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True Cut 4

By: David Alderson September 3, 2019March 14, 2020
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Arms raised, face masked/Jo scrubs, gloves and gowns. Tries to prepare:/a sorcerer’s apprentice invoking powerful forces,/his body becoming, increasingly tense

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True Cut 3

By: David Alderson August 29, 2019March 14, 2020
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Curled on her side,/cocooned in pain a/slick of cold sweat/on her ashen face,/Chrissie waits,/while, with/white coat and Janus /faced mask, Jo puts on/a compassionate/carapace.

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True Cut 2

By: David Alderson August 19, 2019March 14, 2020
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To begin then, at the beginning,/with a team—of a sort./A surgeon, and apprentice/brilliantly lit,/like moths round a flame,/both teacher and taught/drawn to the wound,/ and the instruments’ glint.

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True Cut – a radio play

By: David Alderson August 12, 2019August 19, 2019
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It was an accident. That no-one wanted to have happen. True Cut 1 : The prologue

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