Lit

“I’m making him work for it. Got him to buy me a pack of Tangfastics and a can of Lilt before I showed him my tits.”

The problem with love is that it’s different for everyone. For Bex, love is a handjob in detention and the promise of a date at a Chinese buffet. She doesn’t even like Chinese.

LIT explores the turbulent teenage years of a Nottingham girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

Originally commissioned by HighTide, Sophie Ellerby’s writing revives a proud British tradition by placing complex working class people at the heart of her work. Sophie is an actor and a writer, and the spark of LIT came from her experience studying young women and mothers in the prison system.

Artistic Director of nabokov and director of Paines Plough Roundabout season, Director Stef O’Driscoll is a leading innovator in British theatre; ‘Creates an alternative experience for people who don’t think theatre is for them.’ The Stage.

This productions includes strong language, physical violence, references to suicide, underage sex and sexual violence. It include themes of bereavement, living in care, adoption and teenage pregnancy. It may also include flashing lights, loud bangs and theatrical haze.