Shortlisted by National Youth Theatre and Shine Media for Write to Shine 2012.
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Shortlisted by National Youth Theatre and Shine Media for Write to Shine 2012.
Shortlisted for the BBC Blast My 100 Words competition 2008. Performed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic fringe and in simultaneously in London. The entire stage is in complete darkness. A spot slowly lightens on a pair arguing. They are a teenage boy, about sixteen, and a woman, probably his mother. They are stood face-to-face in the heat of battle. Behind them, at the back of the stage are two doors. Both identical, completely blank, wooden framed doors. As the spot brightens we can already here their voices. WOMAN: You can’t carry on like this. You’re wasting your life! What happened? BOY: Yeah. My life. So keep out of it. WOMAN: (exasperated) Just sort it out. (There’s a pause and she goes to leave, reaching the edge of the stage she stops silently, slowly turning back but without looking directly at him.) Please. BOY: (The boy pulls at his hair in anger) Fuck’s sake. (He paces around the room oblivious to the doors behind him. He stops centre-stage looking pleadingly at the audience.) What? (The boy heads to the back of the stage swinging the left door open violently. As he opens it heavy drum ‘n’ bass starts to play...
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