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Day of the Flymo

  • Paddy Campbell
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573110856

"She's getting us to try and stop and think for five seconds before I do anything. Specially if the thing I'm going to do involves hammers or nicking stuff. It's harder than you'd think."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
Written by award-winning playwright Paddy Campbell (Wet House), Day of the Flymo looks at the lives of young people deemed to be chaotic, a brother and sister struggling to cover up the cracks and the mechanism that swing into action when social services steps in.

Based on his own experience working in a children's home, Paddy Campbell's Day of the Flymo asks what do you do when the state decides it's going to take over from your Mam?

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Features Teens, Features Children

  • LIAM - 13
    BECCA - 16, Liam's sister
    KAREN - 30, Becca and Liam's mam
    BEN - Social worker
    CLARA - 15
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    Written by award-winning playwright Paddy Campbell (Wet House), Day of the Flymo looks at the lives of young people deemed to be chaotic, a brother and sister struggling to cover up the cracks and the mechanism that swing into action when social services steps in.

    Based on his own experience working in a children's home, Paddy Campbell's Day of the Flymo asks what do you do when the state decides it's going to take over from your Mam?

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