Adventures in the Skin Trade

<i>Here we are nibbling away all day and night Mrs Dacey. Nibble nibble. No sense no order no nothing we're all mad and nasty.</i><br/><br/>Samuel Bennett leaves his home in South Wales to pursue a career in London. Setting out with an attitude of reckless nihilistic purpose he encounters a nightmarish city with an assortment of bizarre characters and an embarrassing first sexual experience. Join Samuel as he meanders through this dreamlike world all with a beer bottle stuck on his little finger.<br/><br/>Dylan Thomas's gloriously surreal coming-of-age and unfinished novel is given new life by acclaimed writer Lucy Gough.<br/><br/>Originally premiered in Wales in 2014 the adaptation was then performed in both Sydney and Melbourne Australia in 2015. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Plays for Young People series pitched at ages 16-18. It features an introduction by Sam Mackie Head of Drama in the English Faculty at The Peninsula School Victoria.