The Brenda Line: A ‘Confident and Adventurous’ Debut from Harry Mould

Harry Mould’s “entertaining” debut play, “The Brenda Line”, is inspired by a “curious historical detail”, according to Mark Fisher in The Guardian.

Between 1972 and 1987, the Samaritans set up a service run by female volunteers (“Brendas”) to answer obscene helpline calls from “telephone masturbators”. The playwright’s mother saw the service first-hand when she was a young woman volunteering for the North Wales charity – and it is her experience that inspired the idea for Mould’s “sparky two-hander”.