When an unhappy estate agent sells a house to Alice, a charismatic social media influencer, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. But as her obsession with Alice’s seemingly perfect world intensifies, the lines between online and reality become dangerously blurred.
A thrilling, twisted and razor-sharp comedy on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation, Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s play Harm premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in May 2021.
‘An edgy psychological drama… shines a light on aspects of what is becoming an increasingly virtual society, especially for those in their 20s and 30s, obsessed with image and success beyond the point of reason’
— British Theatre Guide
‘Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s razor-sharp monologue about social media toxicity and trolling… Tense, heady and full of savage laughter, it is intoxicating from beginning to end. Eclair-Powell’s script glints and her barbed wit stings… Harm might be small in scale but it is magnificent in effect’
— Guardian
‘A devastatingly acute picture both of the loneliness of the narrator’s existence – “Sometimes I don’t brush my teeth before bed” – and of the glossiness of an online world where events such as cooking, or home decorating, aren’t activities but opportunities to create content for an avid group of followers’
— Whatsonstage
‘This cracking new piece by rising talent Phoebe Eclair-Powell [is] just as effective at summoning entire worlds as any epic musical or drama’
— Telegraph
‘An arresting, soul-searching monologue’
— The Times
‘Eclair-Powell tells this terrifying tale with a beautiful blend of sharp observation and knowing humour… wonderfully original in its quirkiness… a smart and sassy study of loneliness and obsession’
— Arts Desk
