A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.

Tia's mouthy attitude and confident swagger mask the vulnerability in a fourteen-year-old girl whose tough start in life draws her to AJ. Older, good-looking and charismatic, he shows her a kindness that she's never known. Kindness that comes with a price...

Phil Davies' debut play Firebird premiered at Hampstead Downstairs, London, in 2015, in a production directed by Edward Hall, before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End in 2016.

About the Author

Firebird is Phil Davies' debut full-length play.

He trained at the Royal Court Young Writers Programme where he developed his first script, Adjusted, which won the Rod Hall Memorial Award and gained him an attachment with Paines Plough.

Other work includes short play How To Not Murder (Arcola Theatre, dir. Ned Bennett); Up the Dale (Royal Exchange Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall for Paines Plough); Adjusted (Interplay Europe, Utrecht) and The Makings (ATG, dir. Sarah Dickinson).

He has worked alongside Synergy Theatre Project developing scripts with inmates at Feltham Young Offenders Institution, as well as teaching in a secondary school in South East London.

Reviews

'Remarkably potent... what's remarkable about Davies's writing is how little it hectors and how lifelike it feels. It's angry, it's witty, it makes degradation vivid and infuriating'

* The Times *

'Short, sharp, and appropriately nasty... Davies' writing also brims with a fierce energy'

* WhatsOnStage *

'Blisteringly intense... unforgettable'

* The Stage *

'A must-see... Davies perfectly captures the complexities of human relationships'

* Londonist *

'Powerful and harrowing... [a] gripping and highly emotive drama'

* The Reviews Hub *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848425309
Author Phil Davies
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books