Herons

Text of the day: “I was thinking about Ross, Adele, and Bergsie. I think I know why they were so scared. I think that they realised what I realised when I saw Scott like that. The way that things are wonderful. The way that colours work. The sound of things and the way they smell, Adele. But they couldn’t handle it. So they got frightened. And I started to figure out how everything joins up, Adele.” (Billy in Simon Stephens’s Herons)

Herons Lyric Hammersmith poetry selfhood Simon Stephens