Light One Up

The play highlights a ‘sub-culture’ which sprang up when the ‘smoking in public places’ ban was enforced. It is set predominantly in a dilapidated and inadequate gazebo outside a factory which puts the fish in fish fingers. Huddled together in solidarity under their makeshift shelter, are a pack of pergola pariahs.

Banished from their workplace to lunch, chunter and mumble, our characters ‘light up’ and convey their hidden inner monologue. Not always palatable or conducive to lunch time dining, the audience may be privy to secret revelations, desires, dreams and lies as these mumble characters are not only in the process of igniting their cigarettes but ‘Lighting One Up’.