Featured Playwright
Joseph Irwin
About Me: Gay, brown writer from Liverpool, based in London. Likes to write about sad families, bad relationships, sex and death. If I had to choose – more interested in people than politics. I like plays that pose questions, rather than try to provide answers. Debut play Mama won Lancaster Playwriting Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for the Homotopia Award. Second play Puppy longlisted for RSC's 37 Plays Project.
Featured Play
Little Echoes
Shajenthran’s brother has been attacked and now he\\\'s out for revenge. Danielle’s teenage crush on a pop idol develops into an illicit relationship, ‘professional mentoring’ becoming something much darker. June has spent twenty years serving the private needs of the super wealthy, but her new assignments confront her with the questions she’s spent a lifetime running from. When their paths cross it is not something any of them will forget. Filled with love, coercion, loneliness and obsession, Little Echoes takes you through the city as you’ve never seen it before. A city of deep shadows, darker intentions, and where anything can change in the night…
Playwright: Tom Powell