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Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

  • Jack Thorne
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9781848424166

"I need to stay here, okay? Will you tell them that? I know you don't understand, but I really need to stay here..."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Community Theatre
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.

So it's an odd decision -- to try and bury Like in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.

Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theater Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

Premiere Production: National Theatre Connections Festival, 2008.
  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

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A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can'texplain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.


$24.95