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LIT

  • Sophie Ellerby
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9781848428928

"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."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Violence, References to Suicide, Sexual Violence, Underage Sex, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
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.

Sophie Ellerby's play LIT explores the turbulent teenage years of a Nottingham girl looking for love in all the wrong places. It premiered at the HighTide Festival Aldeburgh, Omnibus Clapham and Nottingham Playhouse in 2019, co-produced by HighTide and Nottingham Playhouse.

REVIEWS:

"A blistering debut... full of details, light and dark, about teenagers' initiations to adulthood."

 The Guardian

"Ellerby has pulled off that rarest of feats - written a wholly contemporary, wholly credible play that speaks of and to the generation born into the perils of social media... an extraordinary debut."

 Broadway World

Premiere Production: HighTide Festival & Nottingham Playhouse, 2019.
  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for younger performers

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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.

Sophie Ellerby's play LIT explores the turbulent teenage years of a Nottingham girl looking for love in all the wrong places. It premiered at the HighTide Festival Aldeburgh, Omnibus Clapham and Nottingham Playhouse in 2019, co-produced by HighTide and Nottingham Playhouse.

$24.95