By a Thread & The Raft

By a Thread powerfully explores the immediate experience of adolescent insecurity and issues of responsibility, love, jealousy and death. A young couple seeking to escape the horrific reality of an apocalyptic war encounter in their retreat a young soldier still carrying the head of a lost friend and an old woman waiting to die

Set against the barren mountainside where the two young people must struggle both to survive and understand each other

The Raft - originally produced by BBC Radio 4 offers a moving and daring exploration of a young mother's struggle to survive the desolation of prison and separation from her son

Cutting between the four walls of the prison suicide cell and a metaphorical sea of despair, this modern tragedy intimately relates a teenage mother's last desperate attempt to reclaim her life and to resurface from despair

The two plays offer a variety of challenges for young actors and will provoke lively discussion of a number of issues