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“I know you want what everyone else wants. A family. A home. But you’ll never have it. Cos of what’s inside you.”

Joanne and Lisa were like sisters. Then Lisa left. Now they’re back together for one last birthday party by the railway tracks. But can they salvage their friendship or will ghosts from the past haunt them forever?

Poignant, moving and darkly funny, this award-winning new play tells the searing story of three girls slipping through the cracks in society, desperately searching for friendship, family and themselves. In a world where nobody wants you, what would you do to survive?

Jane Upton’s award-winning play was co-produced by Fifth Word and Nottingham Playhouse and toured the UK in Spring 2017.

PRESS & AWARDS
Joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright
Best New Play Nomination at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards
★★★★ “This UK tour couldn’t be more timely or more important” – The Stage
“An extraordinary achievement of writer, director and actors… deeply affecting work on a too-urgent subject” – Exeunt
“Terrifically realistic and darkly funny… truly extraordinary and moving theatre” –Nottingham Post

TOUR VENUES
Nottingham Playhouse
CAST Doncaster
Theatre Royal Wakefield
Birmingham REP
Ffwrnes Studio
Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Hully Truck
The Quarry Theatre, Bedford
The Tron, Glasgow
Oxford Playhouse
Stamford Arts Centre
The Marlowe, Canterbury
The Drum, Plymouth

CAST
Amy: Esther-Grace Button
Lisa: Sarah Hoare
Joanne: Tessie Orange-Turner

CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Jane Upton
Director: Laura Ford
Associate Director: Angharad Jones
Designer: Max Dorey
Lighting Designer: Alexandra Stafford
Sound Designer: Max Pappenheim
Assistant Director: Tilly Branson
Producer: Corinne Salisbury
Associate Producer: Hannah Tookey
Production Managers: Darell Bracegirdle & Megan Sheeran
Stage Manager: Sophie Westmoreland