Paines Plough Theatre Company

Since 2010, Paines Plough’s nationwide project Come To Where I’m From has seen more than 100 playwrights from across the UK return to their hometown to pen plays about the places they call home.

Each play is performed for one-night only and then becomes part of the free Come To Where I’m From smartphone app which houses all the mini-plays that have been performed since the project began to create a vivid patchwork quilt of accents, experiences and impressions of the UK.

In the seven years since the Come To Where I’m From has been running a huge range of playwrights, from Olivier Award winners to first timers have taken part including Zia Ahmed, Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, James Graham, Vinay Patel, Beth Steel and Alexandra Wood.