Plastic Tickets

TODAY’S THE DAY. YES IT IS. REEBOK CLASSIC OF A DAY TODAY. YES. IT. IS.

Remember the moment you became an adult? Or did you miss it?

Kev used to have a girlfriend called Lisa, she wore a fitted blazer and Reebok classics, lit up the school yard. Kev used to be the captain of the school football team. Scored the winner in the All-Essex schools’ cup final. Ben used to get beaten up most days. He stole money from his mum’s purse to pay off ‘Wicksy’. Now he’s an accountant. But Ben always had Jack. His loyal, unbreakable mate Jack.

Adults are the kids that survive school, right? And what if some kids don’t?

Following an acclaimed debut at Latitude Festival 2015, Poleroid Theatre in association with the Mercury Theatre Colchester present Plastic – a charged, poetic, unflinchingly honest new drama about time, memory and escape by BAFTA nominated, prizewinning, Essex playwright Kenneth Emson. Plastic is directed by critically acclaimed 2017 JMK Award winner Josh Roche and designed by Sophie Thomas, fresh from their lauded production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Young Vic. Lighting design is by Peter Small and sound design by Kieran Lucas.