Zaynab and Connor work in an American Candy store. It’s closing time and a customer still hasn’t left. 10 minutes later, they’re hiding her unconscious body in a basement. In the following commotion, their secrets are revealed. A thrilling dark comedy about capitalism, corruption and the distrust it generates. And how these anxieties have been projected onto minorities.

“You know, I took a cruise out to the Pacific once. Right into the blue. The edge of the world. Do you know what I found? American Candy. Wrappers as far as the eye can see. Great islands of the stuff. Whole new continents. Land masses so thick you could stand on them…”

Why now?
It tackles “American” cultural imperialism in a way that’s totally unique to anything on the UK stage. In a world of Trump, Musk, an American-backed Reform UK, race riots incited by US oligarchs, and American Candy stores littering our high streets, this story has never felt so urgent.

“Really exciting, takes on important topics with a lot of humour whilst still being accessible - I could see this appealing to people of all ages and backgrounds.” - Ethan Ruparelia, BBC Writer and Assistant Producer

“Absolutely absorbed, gasping during tense moments and cackling during funny ones” -
Callan McCarthy, Bloomsbury , Methuen Publishing

In 1631, The Fens, the flat area of land stretching from Cambridge to Norwich, were
drained.

In 2050, The Fens return to the sea. Two children play in the waterscape. They tell
tales of a mythic Waterman, who scours the water for sunken parts. But, in the bitter
struggle for survival, soon play adopts a more sinister note.
Meanwhile in Ely, 2023, a priest gets a visit from a woman haunted by prophetic
dreams.

It's a play about grief, faith, and the climate crisis; the crashing confluence of past
and present; the refusal to heed the warnings we’re given.
It’s a play about loneliness and the longing for human connection.

4 stars - The Place Theatre blog

\"A beautiful, shifting play about grief and climate disaster\" - Methuen Drama

\"I was fully immersed in the world and kinda wished the play never ended\" - Somebody Jones, Playwright

Scotland. 1941. A man falls from the sky with dark and terrifying consequences.

Based on real events, when Nazi Deputy Leader, Rudolf Hess, flew a solo plane to
Scotland in 1941 to end the war and crash landed in a farmer's field. North Star joins
farm labourer, Davy, and his mother, Mol, as they take him in for tea. In a darkly
comedic tale of myth and madness, the past begins to unravel.

It's a play about loss, colonialism and the myths we tell ourselves. It challenges the
notion of British exceptionalism at the heart of our national identity, confronting the
uncomfortable realities of our own history.

JULIET GILKES ROMERO, PLAYWRIGHT

\"This is quite brilliant. This writer has a real command of theatrical language...really, really blew me away.\"

https://www.rsc.org.uk/37-plays/north-star#:~:text=SYNOPSIS,take%20him%20in%20for%20tea.

1830.
William Huskisson awaits the unveiling of Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’. In a few hours he’ll be dead, run over by the very innovation. Meanwhile, across the country, authorities search for an infamous ‘Captain Swing’.

In a play about AI, Progress and those left behind.