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I Caught Crabs in Walberswick
Paperback, 64 pages ISBN: 9781848420380Publication Date:
13 Nov 2008
Size: 198mm x 129mm£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
Ebook, 64 pages ISBN: 9781780016399Publication Date:
15 Jul 2015
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Eastern Angles & HighTide at the HighTide Festival, Halesworth, 2008

I Caught Crabs in Walberswick

By Joel Horwood

Paperback £8.99£7.19

Ebook £8.99£7.19

A fast-moving, exhilarating play about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in a rural part of England.

Wheeler is a high-flying comprehensive kid destined for university, while football-mad Fitz is struggling to cope with his dysfunctional father and his schoolwork. They live in Walberswick, a sleepy Suffolk village known for hosting the British Open Crabbing Championship.

Set on a sweltering summer's day on the eve of their last GCSE exam, they are ambushed by Dani, the fittest (and poshest) girl on the beach. So begins a crazy twenty-four hours that will change the lives of the three sixteen-year-olds for ever.

Joel Horwood's play I Caught Crabs in Walberswick was first performed at the 2008 HighTide Festival in Suffolk in a co-production with Eastern Angles.

The production transferred to the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, as part of the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and then toured the UK before a sell-out run at The Bush Theatre, London, in November 2008.

Press Quotes

'Sharp as a pin… impressive in its ability to get inside the heads of the teenagers'

Independent

'Catches that coming-of-age moment perfectly'

Telegraph
Paperback,64 pages ISBN: 9781848420380Publication Date:
13 Nov 2008
Size: 198mm x 129mm£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
Ebook,64 pages ISBN: 9781780016399Publication Date:
15 Jul 2015
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by Joel Horwood:

Wolves Are Coming For You
This Changes Everything
Stoopud Fucken Animals
Food

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