Plastic
Paperback, 88 pages ISBN: 9781848427457Publication Date:
3 Apr 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
Ebook, 88 pages ISBN: 9781788500401Publication Date:
3 Apr 2018
£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 2018

Plastic

By Kenny Emson

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Kev used to be captain of the school football team. Scored the winner in the All-Essex Schools Cup Final. He used to have a girlfriend called Lisa; she wore a fitted blazer, and lit up the playground.

Ben used to get beaten up most days. He stole money from his mum's purse to pay off Wicksy.

Then there was Ben's mate Jack. Loyal, unbreakable Jack.

An unflinchingly honest new drama about the kids who survived school, and those who didn't, Kenny Emson's play Plastic premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in April 2018 before transferring to the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, produced by Poleroid Theatre and directed by Josh Roche.

‘Today’s the day
Yes it is
Reebok Classic of a day today
Yes.
It.
Is.’

Press Quotes

'Grips like a vice… it is topical, universally relevant and hits home with the force of a sledgehammer'

The Reviews Hub

'An intoxicating thriller… Emson’s writing is hypnotically poetic'

Theatre Weekly

'Fascinating… will lodge in the mind'

Guardian

'Acutely captures the heightened intensity of teenagerdom, where school is a microcosm of society at large and the injustices delivered there are felt with searing passion'

The Stage

'Emson's script springs its surprises well, setting up expectations then subverting them with skill… the firecracker writing burns bitterly beneath its rhythms and rhymes: terraced houses are cages, classrooms feel like courtrooms'

WhatsOnStage
Paperback,88 pages ISBN: 9781848427457Publication Date:
3 Apr 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
Ebook,88 pages ISBN: 9781788500401Publication Date:
3 Apr 2018
£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)

Also by Kenny Emson:

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Rust
This Must Be the Place

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