A painful comedy about growing up and manning up.

Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way – cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball ache.

Luke Norris's play Growth was first produced by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It subsequently toured the UK. An earlier version of the play was seen at the Gate Theatre, London.

'Norris' script is very funny, throwing laugh-out-loud one-liners out at a rate of knots' — WhatsOnStage

'Gripping and deeply moving from start to finish… brilliant, sensitive writing' — British Theatre Guide

'Achingly funny and tender... of the hundreds of shows at the Fringe, few feel as necessary as this' — Financial Times

'Consolidates the career of a significant playwriting talent… Quite simply, this is everything you could want from a play on such a difficult subject. It’s so straightforward and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny as to make it a popular hit, but with an unerring connection to its characters and their responses' — Scotsman

'Growth has a beady wit and lots of snazzy one-liners… funny and truthful' — Guardian

Edinburgh Fringe First Award