The Monstrous Heart

Mag lives in a rustic cabin in the Canadian wilds, far from neighbours and further from her past. It's an unremarkable life, save for the enormous bear carcass on the kitchen table.
But when her estranged daughter Beth turns up on the doorstep having been freshly released from prison, the past becomes terrifyingly present - and the bear isn't the only thing with a dangerous bite.

Oliver Emanuel (1980-2023) was a playwright based in Glasgow. Work included: Everything, BBC Radio 4; One Night In Iran, Oran Mor/BBC Radio 3; Elvis in Prestwick, BBC Radio 4; John, Visible Fictions; Daniel & Mary, BBC Radio Scotland; Videotape, Oran Mor; Flit, National Theatre of Scotland; Magpie Park, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Bella & The Beautiful Knight, Silver Tongue Theatre, Vienna Theatre Project and Comedy Theatre, Bucharest. Adaptations included: The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe, BBC Radio 4. He was Writer-in-Resident for BBC Radio 4/Children in Need and Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. He was under commission to BBC Radio 4, STV, the Scottish Refugee Council, and worked on a text with Alison Peebles for the National Theatre of Scotland.