Surfacing and The Silence and the Noise

Two plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell.<br/><br/><b>Surfacing</b><br/><br/>NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. She's definitely not overwhelmed by meeting Owen a new client definitely not freaked out by what she's started seeing definitely doesn't think her reality has been punctured and something else is leaking in. Luc goes for a swim and feels a hand dragging her down to the bottom of the lake... When she surfaces her reality is different. She's haunted by tormented mice shape-shifting people and secrets she thought she'd buried.<br/><br/>This breathtaking new two-hander creates a contemporary Through The Looking Glass world. It premiered in February 2023.<br/><br/><b>The Silence and the Noise</b><br/><b><br/></b>Ben and Daize are teenagers either side of a county line. Drug runner and daughter of an addict. As the adult world around them becomes deadly dangerous do these natural enemies have it in them to save each other?<br/> <br/><i>The Silence and The Noise</i> won the Papatango Prize and captures the story of two young people on the edge.