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Playfight

by Julia Grogan

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"That time. When we were kids. Was our creation. Created out of fear by three girls who couldn’t bear to dream of bliss. Because it would have been too painful if we never reached it."
The winner of the 2020 ETPEP Competition
24 Mar - 8 Apr 2021
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Playfight follows three savvy fifteen-year-old girls as they navigate their experiences and desires while confronting the harsh realities of hyper-sexualization and exploitation in their lives.

About The Event

About The Play

Available for one week from Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 6.00pm to Thursday, 8 April 2021 at midnight.

★★★★★ Five Stars, A Younger Theatre
★★★★★ Five Stars, London Pub Theatres
★★★★ Four Stars, The Stage
★★★★ Four Stars, The Upcoming
★★★★ Four Stars, Mobile Theatre
London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award Nomination

Kiera, Zainab and Lucy are smart, outrageous and savvy. They’ve figured out that there are some things school sex ed lessons don’t cover. Now, as they grow from girls into women, they’re going to find the answers… 

But nothing ever happens in their town, and they’re fifteen, so what do they know? 

By turns funny and poignant, their experiences as they grow from girls into women shine a light on contemporary desire, the pain we feel and the lengths we go to…

Informed by the rise in violence in mainstream pornography and the ‘rough sex defence’, Playfight interrogates the dangerous reality of the hyper-sexualisation and exploitation of young people.

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Cast

Crew

Director

Blanche McIntyre

Producer

Arsalan Sattari Presented by Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre and the ETPEP Award