Growth
Published on 4. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84842-592-7 (ISBN)
Description
A painful comedy about growing up and manning up.
Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way - cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball ache.
Luke Norris's play Growth was first produced by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It subsequently toured the UK. An earlier version of the play was seen at the Gate Theatre, London.
Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way - cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball ache.
Luke Norris's play Growth was first produced by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It subsequently toured the UK. An earlier version of the play was seen at the Gate Theatre, London.
Reviews / Votes
'Norris' script is very funny, throwing laugh-out-loud one-liners out at a rate of knots' * WhatsOnStage * 'Gripping and deeply moving from start to finish... brilliant, sensitive writing' * British Theatre Guide * 'Achingly funny and tender... of the hundreds of shows at the Fringe, few feel as necessary as this' * Financial Times * 'Consolidates the career of a significant playwriting talent... Quite simply, this is everything you could want from a play on such a difficult subject. It's so straightforward and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny as to make it a popular hit, but with an unerring connection to its characters and their responses' * Scotsman * 'Growth has a beady wit and lots of snazzy one-liners... funny and truthful' * Guardian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
114 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-592-7 (9781848425927)
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Person
Luke Norris is a writer and actor. His writing credits include: Growth (Paines Plough UK tour, 2016); So Here We Are (HighTide/ Festival and Manchester Royal Exchange, 2015; winner of the Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award, 2013); Hearts (National Theatre Connections); A Puzzle (Site Specific piece for the Royal Court); Goodbye To All That (Royal Court Theatre, 2012) and Borough Market (Edinburgh Fringe).