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Glitter Punch

  • Lucy Burke
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: NHB-11649

A gritty, coming-of-age drama about first love.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! VAULT People's Choice Award (2018)
A gritty, coming-of-age drama about first love.

Critically acclaimed during its run at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Lucy Burke's Glitter Punch – set in Greater Manchester – charts a troubling new relationship between mysterious John and sixteen-year-old Molly, a love that will change their lives forever.

Glitter Punch was performed as part of the 2018 VAULT Festival, London, where it was the winner of a People's Choice Award.

The play is available in the collection Plays from VAULT 3.

REVIEWS:

"[Has] a sting in its tail… deliver[s] a powerful comment on society’s stigmas when it comes to affairs of the heart."

 The Stage

"Beautifully complex, honest and relatable… I wish [this play] had been there 10 years ago, when I too was going through the awkward teenage phase."

 A Younger Theatre

"Funny, poignant, moving."

 LondonTheatre1

Premiere Production: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2017.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F