Layla's Room

<i>Respect women respect girls. Respect yourselves. Remember you are everyone who's gone before you and you are nobody that has ever been so make it count make it special make a difference make people listen love the women who have loved you and watch us make the world move to a better place.</i> <br/><br/>For Layla every day is a battleground.<br/><br/>The pay gap the thigh gap over-sexed pop and selfies that are photoshopped - they're just part of the world she lives in.<br/><br/>But that world is about to change.<br/><br/>While breaking out of her bedroom - and with drama comedy poetry and music as her weapons - Layla breaks down and makes sense of the realities difficulties and absurdities of teenage life in the UK today.<br/><br/>Collected from a bespoke national survey the voices of a thousand UK teens are brought to life in Layla. Their ambitions concerns role-models and regrets are woven together by award-winning Sabrina Mahfouz and theatre company Theatre Centre offering a hard-hitting yet hopeful story.<br/><br/><i>Layla's Room</i> received its world premiere at Redbridge Drama Centre on 15 September 2016 in a production by Theatre Centre. It is ideal for students and young performers between 16 and 18 years old.