Hamish

Cast: 1m

Staging: Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £45 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
First Staged:
BBC Four, 2020

Hamish

By Jack Thorne
Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues

It's 1981. Hamish's parents have been fundraising to buy him a new wheelchair. Crucially, it is a self-operated vehicle and a chance for independence. Pushed everywhere by carers before this, Hamish heads for the woods to find sexual pleasure. But he hasn't counted on such rough terrain.

Jack Thorne's short monologue play Hamish was commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, broadcast on BBC Four and BBC America in 2020 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, which criminalised discrimination against disabled people in many areas of life. The production had disabled people at its core – as writers, directors and actors of all six monologues.

Hamish was performed by Robert Softley Gale, directed by Amit Sharma.

It is published in the volume Criptales: Six Monologues.

Cast: 1m

Staging:Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £45 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues

Also by Jack Thorne:

2nd May 1997
Woyzeck
Bunny
CripTales: Six Monologues
A Christmas Carol
Junkyard
Stacy
Whiff Whaff
Jack Thorne Plays: Two
After Life
The Motive and the Cue
Hope
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement
Mydidae
When Winston Went to War with the Wireless
Boo
When You Cure Me
The Solid Life of Sugar Water
Let the Right One In
Fanny and Faggot
Jack Thorne Plays: One
Red Car, Blue Car
Stacy & Fanny and Faggot: two plays
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