Static and Blackout

<i>The Static</i><br/><br/>'We all have sick thoughts. It doesnae matter what you think it's what you do that counts. Trouble is my thoughts do things. Don't believe me? Just watch.'<br/><br/>Sparky is a bright but volatile 15-year-old boy on the brink of permanent exclusion from school. Then one day he falls under the spell of a seemingly psychic girl called Siouxsie and develops his own kinetic superpower. But will it save him or push him over the edge?<br/><br/><i>The Static</i> is a coming-of-age love story about what happens when our darkest dreams come true.<br/><br/><br/><i>Blackout</i><br/><br/>'A small room bright lights white walls a metal door. Oh my God! Imagine you wake up in a jail cell and you don't know how you got there.'<br/><br/><i>Blackout </i>is the true story of a 15-year-old boy charged with attempted murder who tries to piece together the events in his life that have brought him into a secure care unit and threaten to keep him there. This short play packs a big emotional punch with its stylistic economy and razor-sharp storytelling.<br/><i><br/>The Static</i> was originally produced by ThickSkin for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and UK tour 2012. <i>Blackout</i> was commissioned for NT Connections and produced by ThickSkin at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010 winning the Arches Brick Award and subsequently touring the UK.