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And though you sometimes wish these people weren''t so huge, or that they weren''t even there in the first place, they keep you company somehow. And that''s why you put them there. They make you feel you are not alone. A university tutor who wages academic warfare. A dating app match who teases and slips through fingers. A school crush who looks at you like no one else has before. Is obsession even about the person you''re obsessed with? When desire meets fantasy, we transform someone into something - something that we need them to be, and in turn something that allows us to be someone else. A monologue in three parts, Cesca Echlin''s Looking for Giants sees our narrator enter the minds of the men she can''t stop thinking about, inhabiting the objects of her obsession. When the boundaries between self and other start to blur, who''s in control of the narrative? Met with critical acclaim during its debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023, Looking for Giants is a one-woman show about gender, sex and the stories we tell ourselves. This edition was published to coincide with the run at London''s King''s Head Theatre in January 2025.
About the author
Cesca Echlin is a writer and director based in London. Her past roles include working as Executive Assistant on series 2 of the TV show
I Hate Suzie, where she assisted the screenwriter/playwright Lucy Prebble as part of her role and gained experience in television production from prep to post, particularly the development of scripts throughout the process. She has also worked as an editorial assistant to writer Xandra Bingley and as part-time assistant to screenwriter Sam Lansky. Cesca has volunteered part time at the theatre company Clean Break since 2019. Recent projects include the staging of her debut play
Looking for Giants at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, which was met with critical acclaim. Her second, in-development play
Short Pleasures Long Woes was selected as part of Omnibus Theatre's Engine Room: Next Page series in January 2024.
