I will still be whole (when you rip me in half)

"A tender little green shoot of a piece" Lyn Gardner 1996. A young mother walks out of a small house in Shepherd's Bush and doesn't look back. 2019. A daughter lies in a bath and stares at a crack in the ceiling. Joy and EJ prepare for their first meeting in twenty-two years. They run, they bathe, they inhale, they wait. i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) is the debut play by acclaimed theatre critic Ava Wong Davies: a lyrical interlinking of monologues devoted to blood ties, the cycle of trauma, and what we inherit from our parents.