When Kurt Met Thora

BBC Studios, November 1991. Thora Hird, aka Captain Emily Ridley from Hallelujah, encounters Kurt Cobain ahead of Nirvana’s infamous appearance on Top of the Pops. A mutual love of coastal towns, music and family is revealed over tea and custard creams as they reflect on their individual experience of God and wonder if at the final reckoning 'Jesus will want them for sunbeams', and whether happiness is ever really a choice or something predetermined for us all.

Plush Tiger return to the fringe with Clara-Nel Haddon’s ‘When Kurt Met Thora’

Written by Clara-Nel Haddon

Maeve and Howard

New Yorker Offices 1950. Maeve Brennan, the brilliant yet reclusive journalist , aka ´The Long-winded Lady’ and closeted poetry editor Howard Moss find mutual solace in their unlikely but enduring friendship. Plush Tiger return to the Fringe with a new play by Clara Nel Haddon charting a friendship founded on razor-sharp repartee, shared dreams and unwavering affection. Their intertwined lives reveal that sometimes the most profound stories are written between the lines.

Written by Clara-Nel Haddon

plush tiger productions

South Yorkshire based Plush Tiger Productions formed as a theatre collective in 2015 with the aim of producing new work. Clara-Nel Haddon is writer and producer.
Clara-Nel grew up in Yorkshire and attended the Universities of Sussex, the Sorbonne and Huddersfield.

Recent plush tiger productions
Desert Bloom - Edinburgh Fringe 2015

Desert Bloom - Brighton Fringe 2016
‘Emotionally-charged’ ★ ★ ★ ★ BroadwayBaby

Noiseless & Patient - Brighton Fringe 2016
‘Beautiful and lyrical’ ★ ★ ★ FringeGuru

Noiseless & Patient - Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Sisu - Edinburgh Fringe 2016
‘A brilliant hidden Fringe gem’ (Joe Lycett 2016)

Hive - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
‘intimate and enthralling’ ★ ★ ★ ★ EdinburghGuide.com

Desert Bloom - Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Queen of the Air - Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Glister - Edinburgh Fringe 2022

When Kurt Met Thora - Edinburgh Fringe 2023

Buxton Fringe 2024

'When Kurt Met Thora'

by Clara-Nel Haddon
will be at the 2024 Buxton Fringe.
8th and 16th to 18th July 2024
Various time - see programme
at Underground at the Springs

'When Kurt Met Thora'

at Buxton Fringe tickets on sale soon

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

'When Kurt Met Thora'

by Clara-Nel Haddon
will be at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
12th to 17th August 2024
16.05pm
at theSpace@surgeonshall

'When Kurt Met Thora'

at Edinburgh Festival Fringe tickets on sale now

'Maeve and Howard'

by Clara-Nel Haddon
will be at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
12th to 17th August 2024
15.05pm
at theSpace@surgeonshall

'Maeve and Howard'

at Edinburgh Festival Fringe tickets on sale now

reviews

Desert Bloom - Brighton Fringe 2016
‘Emotionally-charged’ ★ ★ ★ ★ BroadwayBaby

Noiseless & Patient - Brighton Fringe 2016
‘Beautiful and lyrical’ ★ ★ ★ FringeGuru

Sisu - Edinburgh Fringe 2016
‘A brilliant hidden Fringe gem’ (Joe Lycett 2016)

Hive - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
‘intimate and enthralling’ ★ ★ ★ ★ EdinburghGuide.com

When Kurt Met Thora - Edinburgh Fringe 2023
‘As an imagined piece of entertainment folklore it’s priceless' The Stage