Braids and Cheer Up Slug

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best Play for Young Audiences Award (2022)</b><br><i><br>Don't you ever get sick of it? </i><br><i>Being the only one? </i><br><i>Yeah. Being the Ambassador of Blackness? </i> <p/>Abeni is new to college. She's putting purple braids in Jasmine's hair and giving her 'the talk' opening Jasmine's mind to new ways of seeing the world - and the world seeing both of them. A new play by Olivia Hannah about fitting in and standing out. Featured as part of BBC Arts Light Up Festival and played on BBC Radio <i>Braids</i> was longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award 2018 and shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain 2022 award for Best Play for Young Audiences. <p/><i>Not that I'm saying I know more about you than you do I'm not saying that's not what I'm saying like at all! Just that I do know you better than maybe you know yourself.</i> <p/>Will and Bean have been friends forever. ?But they're not kids anymore and the adult world is a scary place. In a tent in County Durham a Duke of Edinburgh Award trip becomes more complicated than either of them planned. <i>Cheer Up Slug</i> is a new play by Tamsin Daisy Rees about boundaries and behaviour. <p/>This double-edition of debut plays by North-East based writers was published to coincide with the premiere at Live Theatre in October 2021.</p>