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Lost Thought presents
SHOOK
Written by Samuel Bailey
Directed by Emma Whitehead
An AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
“This moment in your life, this place here, doesn’t have to define you”
Locked up in a dangerous youth offenders’ institution, teenagers Riyad and Cain trade insults, barter for sweets, and dream of their imminent fatherhood. When they meet conspicuously quiet new inmate Jonjo at a parenting skills course, they speculate what kind of crime brought him inside.
Over several months, guided by no-nonsense social worker Grace, the boys take a rare opportunity to explore their masculinity, relationships, and future ambitions. Will they take action to escape the system for good, or remain and stay shook?
The Australian premiere of this energetic, abrasive, and savagely funny drama is a hard-hitting but refreshingly honest tale of the voiceless in society. Winner of the UK Papatango New Writing Prize 2019, Bailey’s play asks if those raised with the odds stacked against them can ever truly break the cycle.
???? – The Times, The Stage, Evening Standard, WhatsOnStage, Sunday Times
“Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut rings with fresh truth” – The New York Times
“Astonishingly brilliant…one of the best debut plays I have ever seen” – Saturday Review, BBC Radio Four
Venue
The Old Fitz Theatre @ 129 Dowling Street Woolloomooloo NSW 201
Price
$20 - $25
Bookings
Through oldfitztheatre website
