Fresh Ink – Content Notes

Age guidance: 16+

Below are the content notes for each of the rehearsed readings and sharings taking place across the weekend.

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A Play and a Play (Writers’ Group Sharing)

Eggs by Ali Truman – strong language

Family Lines by Amber Wiles – reference to parental emotional abuse

Karma’s A Bitch by Laura Grey – strong language, reference to homophobia, discussion of sexual assault

You Are The Sky by Dan Arnott – strong language, reference to death of loved ones

Lost And Found by Nicola Meekin – discussion and depiction of Alzheimer’s, reference to death of a loved one

Beyond Help by Katie Price – discussion and indirect depiction of suicide

Paradise Ave by Charlie Blanchard – strong language

Commissions

Phobia by Andrew Houghton – moderate language, discussion of gender identity

Senzeni Na? by Prince Kundai – themes of abduction

Jack & Gill by Grace Waga Glevey – themes of death/dying, discussion of racism

Isabelle by Marc Graham – strong language, violence, sexual references

Can We Be Friends? by Hannah Scorer – reference to post-natal depression

No Woman Is An Island by Rosie Race – themes of climate anxiety, parental grief, suicide, loss of a child, death, traumatic birth, references to abuse, presence of a weapon.

First Look 2025

Van Man by Sid Sagar – themes of racism and grief