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Holes in the Skin

  • Robert Holman
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 5M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9781854597472

15-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mum's new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and asks him to do something about it, she finds herself adrift in a landscape of physical brutality, drugs - and, eventually, love.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
A gripping play about the nature of violence. 

15-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mum's new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and asks him to do something about it, she finds herself adrift in a landscape of physical brutality, drugs - and, eventually, love.

Robert Holman's play Holes in the Skin was first performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in June 2003.

REVIEWS:

"Marvellously mature and dramatically engrossing."

 The Guardian  

"Hypnotic ... a shimmering, wistful evocation of lost innocence."

The Times

Premiere Production: Chichester Festival Theatre in June 2003.
  • Casting: 5M, 3F

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