Failure Project

A warm and witty one-person play exploring grief, the strings attached to success, and what it means to 'fail'. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024.

About the author

Yolanda Mercy is a British Nigerian writer and performer for stage, screen and audio.

She is a winner of the Channel 4 Playwriting Award and her play Quarter Life Crisis (Edinburgh Fringe & Soho Theatre, 2017) won the 2018 Underbelly Untapped Award. The play was also adapted for BBC Radio 1Xtra.

Other work includes failure project (Edinburgh Fringe, 2024) and  On The Edge of Me.

Product details

• Authors: Yolanda Mercy
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781839043840
• ISBN: 978-1-83904-384-0
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Series: NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts, Comedic plays