The Black Eye Club Tickets

The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles was selected anonymously out of over 450 submissions as the winner of The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award following three reading rounds. The award was open for submissions last summer/autumn and called for full length plays with at least 50% material that are female, non-binary or gender neutral roles, from UK based playwrights. The premiere of the winning play is being staged for the theatre's third anniversary in November 2017, directed by the Artistic Director.

Phil Charles was propelled to write The Black Eye Club after witnessing cuts to council budgets and their disastrous impact on services for those affected by domestic abuse, many refuges are forced to shut down or taken over by non-specialist providers.

Following diverse careers as a homeless support worker and advertising copywriter, Phil Charles is an award-winning scriptwriter having written for series such as Shameless, Doctors and Murphy’s Law. He presently has various original radio, TV and film projects in commissioned development. Based on personal experience, The Black Eye Club is his debut stage play: “The Black Eye Club addresses struggles involved in escaping an abusive partner. The play gives a unique spin on this very serious subject matter in that it explores it in a very hopeful way; it is also unique in that it looks at same-sex domestic abuse, the final gay taboo.”