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Smilin' Through. On the eve of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Kyle Morrow comes out to his fiercely Presbyterian mother, Peggy. When she tells him to get out he barricades himself into his bedroom and goes on hunger strike until she accepts his sexuality and agrees to let him stay. Smilin' Through is a savage comedy which won the 2002 Writing Out Award for Best New Gay Play organised by Finborough Theatre. It was nominated for Best New Play 2005 by the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. Still Ill. Ulster 2008. Ten years after peace, police stations are closing down and sex shops are opening up. When Tommy returns home he can't believe all the changes, but then he bumps into Gary, his old friend and fellow fan of The Smiths. The two men start a dangerous affair that pulls Tommy back into a world of violence he hoped had disappeared. Still Ill (ne: Transitions) is a tragic love story which won Warehouse Theatre's 2010 International Playwriting competition and received a S

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'A touching collection of poetry by Stephen Bone. 'Your whispered words silently replay themselves - don't tell me how it ends, don't spoil it for me.' From In The Cinema'

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Benji's mantra has just about got him through his first year with HIV, but it's not so much the virus that is the problem -- it is everything that comes with it. Afraid of stigma and rejection, he is stopped going out, he has let himself fall out of contact with his family and God only knows when he last had sex. But that is enough of that. His self-confidence may be at an all-time low but it is time he finally grabbed life by the balls and started properly living it again. How hard can it be...? Inspired by true stories, 'Positive' is a refreshingly honest and ultimately uplifting comedy breaking down the out-dated preconceptions surrounding HIV and the 100,000+ people living with it in the UK today. While it is certainly no sunny walk in the park, it is not the death sentence it was 30 years ago either -- and Benji's slowly beginning to realise that the only thing standing between him and normality is not some stupid virus, but his own apprehension. And possibly his terrible taste in

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Metamorphoses. Visceral. Beautiful. Savage. Affecting. In the face of emotional & physical transformation, the humanity of these stories, filtered through from Ovid, transcend the years to speak to our time. This version reflects the variety and persistence of pure storytelling. Love, loss, memory, imagination and mind games, with a glimpse of the divine.

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