Isaac Came Home from the Mountain

Longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize Phil Ormrod''s searing play Isaac Came Home from the Mountain is about searching for a future in the dying heart of England.Bobby''s out of school and out of work. There''s nothing going and nowhere to go. A job with Mike at the local scrapyard seems like everything he needs. A steady wage. A bit of self-respect. A chance to make good. But with the odds against him and Mike''s layabout son to contend with it''s not that easy.Driven by a dogged determination to prove his worth Bobby makes a devastating mistake and risks throwing away his new life before it''s begun.Set in a sh*thole town in central England wracked by the death throes of industry and austerity Isaac Came Home from the Mountain wonders where today''s working men wash up. In a post-Blairite state that pushes young men through college towards lowly white-collar jobs estate agents and call centres what becomes of those better suited to an honest day''s graft (WhatsOnStage)