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Performance dates
8 April - 9 May 2020
Run time 1hr 35min
Includes interval
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Nominated for seven Off-West End Awards: Best Production, Best New Play, Most Promising Playwright, Best Director (Plays), Best Set Design, Best Sound Design and Best Performance Ensemble.
"He’ll look different. My little boy. When I get out. Like… to the picture I’ve got in my head. Be like meeting him all over again. Be a whole new start."
Instead of GCSEs, Cain, Riyad and Jonjo got sentences. Locked up in a young offenders' institution, they trade sweets, chat shit, kill time - and await fatherhood. Grace’s job is to turn these teenagers into parents, but can they grow up quickly enough to escape the system?
Winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize from 1,406 entries, Shook tenderly and honestly examines the young men society shuts away.
Papatango’s original production transfers to the West End after a sensational UK tour which broke box office records, won rave reviews and earned multiple award nominations.
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Samuel Bailey's Shook play to transfer to Trafalgar Studios
It has been confirmed that Shook will transfer to the West End this Spring after receiving its world premiere at the Southwark Playhouse last year. Papatango Prize-winning play by Samuel Bailey will run at Trafalgar Studios 2 for a strictly limited season from 8 April until 9 May 2020. Tickets for Shook The Play are on sale now.
23 Jan, 2020 | By Nicholas Ephram Ryan Daniels