The UN building in Geneva is opening its doors to 'Spoonface,' an award-winning play that depicts the value of life through the eyes of an autistic child diagnosed with cancer. Upon the invitation of ...

Spoonface Steinberg is the classic 1997 radio drama that announced the playwright Lee Hall to the world. It imagines the way in which a young autistic Jewish girl who has been diagnosed with terminal ...

I dreaded the prospect of Lee Hall's Spoonface Steinberg, a 70-minute monologue for a nine-year-old autistic girl, dying of cancer. Yet the play left me with an odd sense of elation as well as sadness ...

Take a combination of Jewishness, autism, a young child dying of cancer, and some of the most exquisitely sad operatic arias ever invented and you're pretty well bound to find the g (grizzle) spot in ...

It’s difficult to assess Hull Truck’s latest production, a bold and imaginative pairing of one-act one-person plays, two good performances (one of them excellent), yet somehow a misconceived evening ...

HOW can a story so bleak be so life-affirming and leave you aching for more? Lee Hall's monologue about disability and death is mercifully free of the patina of schmaltz which Stephen Daldry applied ...

One additional heartbreak for the parents of terminally ill children is that their youngsters often seem to display a maturity of character and insight far beyond their years. Review by Nick Brunger ...

Peel the Limelight joins hands with Spark Drama for Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall as part of the 2017 Bangkok Theatre Festival. Directed by Peter O’Neill and starred by Claire Stanley, the play ...

Radio 4 Extra presents the fourth and final play in Lee Hall’s God’s Country series. Lee Hall’s monologue featuring a seven year-old autistic girl dying of cancer elicited an extraordinary response ...