A painful comedy about growing up and manning up.

Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way - cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball ache.

Luke Norris's play Growth was first produced by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It subsequently toured the UK. An earlier version of the play was seen at the Gate Theatre, London.

About the Author

Luke Norris is a writer and actor. His writing credits include: Growth (Paines Plough UK tour, 2016); So Here We Are (HighTide/ Festival and Manchester Royal Exchange, 2015; winner of the Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award, 2013); Hearts (National Theatre Connections); A Puzzle (Site Specific piece for the Royal Court); Goodbye To All That (Royal Court Theatre, 2012) and Borough Market (Edinburgh Fringe).

Reviews

'Norris' script is very funny, throwing laugh-out-loud one-liners out at a rate of knots'

* WhatsOnStage *

'Gripping and deeply moving from start to finish... brilliant, sensitive writing'

* British Theatre Guide *

'Achingly funny and tender... of the hundreds of shows at the Fringe, few feel as necessary as this'

* Financial Times *

'Consolidates the career of a significant playwriting talent... Quite simply, this is everything you could want from a play on such a difficult subject. It's so straightforward and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny as to make it a popular hit, but with an unerring connection to its characters and their responses'

* Scotsman *

'Growth has a beady wit and lots of snazzy one-liners... funny and truthful'

* Guardian *


Awards
Winner of Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2016.



Book Information
ISBN 9781848425927
Author Luke Norris
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books