Braids and Cheer Up Slug

<i>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><br/><br/>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.<br/> <br/><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><br/><i><br/></i>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.<br/><br/>This double-edition of debut plays by North-East based writers was published to coincide with the premiere at Live Theatre in October 2021.