Seagulls and Sad Sad Stories.
Three lads, one fortune telling machine and the whole rest of their lives.
LAURELS THEATRE, WHITLEY BAY · 9 – 23 DECEMBER 2024
CHIPS · CHAOS · FORTUNE
Make a wish.
Eggy, Ollie and Jordan are sixteen, waiting on their GCSE results and running out of seafront to run along. A battered fortune telling machine offers them a look at what comes next. None of them like what it says.
Sarah Bond's debut full length play is funny, furious and tender, played out at full pelt with a live house band, puppetry and a coastline that refuses to let anyone leave. It opened at Laurels in Whitley Bay as an alternative Christmas show and raised gifts for the Cash for Kids Mission Christmas appeal.
- VENUE
- Laurels Theatre, Whitley Bay
- RUN
- 9 – 23 December 2024
- WRITER
- Sarah Bond
- LIVE MUSIC
- Live house band, M4SS Production
- PRESENTED BY
- A Laurels Theatre production
SUPPORTING CASH FOR KIDS MISSION CHRISTMAS
EGGY
Ben Gettins
OLLIE
Aaron Fenwick
JORDAN
Jake Jarratt
MULTIPLE ROLES
Maya Torres
“A perceptive story of teenage friendship, seamed with sadness and anger.”
“Brilliantly written and performed, a turbo-charged Gerry and Sewell for a new generation.”
“A gritty, hilarious production about three lads on the edge of the rest of their lives.”
The Richard Jenkinson Commission
Sarah Bond's script was chosen as the first winner of the commission, selected from more than seven hundred applications.
Stage Debut Award nomination
Sarah Bond was nominated for a Stage Debut Award for the play.
Published by Methuen Drama
The script was published in the Modern Plays series by Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury.
Cash for Kids
The run raised gifts and donations for the Mission Christmas appeal.
WRITTEN BY
Sarah Bond
DIRECTED BY
Sarah Bond · Jamie Eastlake
STAGING
John Dalziel
SOUND & LIGHTING DESIGN
Jade Young
LIVE MUSIC
M4SS Production
DEVELOPED THROUGH
The Richard Jenkinson Commission