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‘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.’

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.



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

* 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 *

'Meticulously crafted writing... captures what happens to young people across the country today'

* Reviews Hub *

'Gripping stuff from beginning to end'

* LondonTheatre1 *

LIT

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    A Paperback / softback by Sophie Ellerby

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 12 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9781848428928
      978-1848428928
      ISBN-10 1848428928
      Also in:
      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ‘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.’

      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.



      Trade Review

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

      * 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 *

      'Meticulously crafted writing... captures what happens to young people across the country today'

      * Reviews Hub *

      'Gripping stuff from beginning to end'

      * LondonTheatre1 *

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