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Jack Thorne
2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, eighteen years in
power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the
euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.
Tory
MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he
fears becoming a forgotten man, while his wife Marie counts the cost of
her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero, but
party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and
Will wake up with a new world order to memorise before their A-level
Politics class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake
A smouldering play about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future.
Cast : 4M, 2F
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Jack Thorne
Scorching heat. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When her boyfriend is attacked on the street, feisty eighteen-year-old Katie is thrust on a white-knuckle ride through one extraordinary evening. Amidst the baying for blood and the longing for love, Katie is forced to decide her future.
Awards
- 2010
Fringe First Award, Edinburgh
Review
Thorne’s intoxicating text takes the audience on a journey into uncertainty -
Herald Scotland
Cast : 10M, 6F + 2 girls + extras
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Jack Thorne
One bathroom. Two
people. A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love. Mydidae
opens at a poignant milestone in a young couple’s life, the first
anniversary of a shared personal tragedy. David and Marian’s different
perspectives of the event and their conflicting views test the relationship and
force brutal realities into the forefront of their consciousness.
Jack Thorne’s play is
an unflinching examination of a young couple struggling to move on from the
death of their infant daughter. Set entirely in their bathroom, it depicts in
stark detail the insecurities and idiosyncrasies of modern relationships.
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Two Plays
Jack Thorne
Stacy
The sole protagonist, Rob, finds life confusing in a world of unwritten rules. If there’s no one around to tell him right from wrong, except for a copy of
FHM and a call-centre supervisor, he just has to guess. Sometimes he gets his guesses very wrong...
Review
A pin-sharp, brilliant piece of work -
Time Out, Critics’ Choice
Fanny and Faggot
Presents two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell, who was convicted of the murders of two boys—aged four and three—when she was just ten years old. Jack Thorne’s ambitious and highly theatrical drama presents a distrubing, funny, and troubled world. Using documentation from the court case in 1968 and the imagined events of her escape in 1978,
Fanny and Faggot explores Mary’s journey to the brink of horror and her tentative steps back into ‘normal life’.
The two parts,
Two Little Boys
and
Superstar
, can be performed together or separately.
Review
A darkly gripping achievement, probing the most horrifying extremes of human behaviour with compassion and a rigorous moral and intellectual curiosity. -
The Times
Cast : Stacy - 1M / Fanny & Faggot - 2F (Two Little Boys) ; 2M, 2F (Superstar)
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Jack Thorne
Rachel and Peter are seventeen. They have been going out for six months. It’s love’s young dream. Then Rachel gets ill - seriously ill. She doesn’t want her mum to fuss; she doesn’t want Alice to pretend she’s her best friend; and she certainly doesn’t want Alice’s boyfriend telling bad jokes at her bedside. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn’t know what it is that he wants, but he thinks he can make her better again.
When You Cure Me is a bittersweet and poignant tale of love and misunderstanding — and discovering that what you say and do can be very different from what you think and feel.
Cast : 2M, 3F
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