One day the sun burned into everything and nature took back all the things we once took from it. And the world I knew was gone… Except for Eva.

In a hostile world without parents Keira and Adam meet and fall in love. But when Keira’s little sister Eva goes missing they are catapulted into a dangerous and macabre search. Keira is forced to face her worst fear: how can you give up looking for the person you love?

JERWOOD THEATRE UPSTAIRS
Tusk Tusk
Written by Polly Stenham
28 March – 2 May

“Come on troops. Let’s take check: Finnbar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full night’s sleep but otherwise all in order… Stay here. Don’t answer the door.”

Once upon a time in what feels like another country, three children play hide and seek. Fifteen year old Elliott wears a crown, thirteen year old Maggie wraps herself in silk and little Finn draws on the walls. Together they watch a mobile phone intensely, willing it to come to life. Whose call are they waiting for and why are they home alone?

As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Tusk Tusk, Polly Stenham’s second play, is a tale of family ties as an uncertain future circles.

Director Jeremy Herrin

Designer Robert Innes Hopkins

Lighting Neil Austin

Sound Emma Laxton

Cast includes Georgia Groome, Bel Powley, Toby Regbo

Isn’t it time Doctor Who became a female.

Georgia Groome is young, but would make a real change for the show, but she has the ability to pull it off.

Let’s get the campaign started!

Matthew Ryan’s (Harry Treadaway) life is devastated after the disappearance of his younger brother, Tom. Matthew’s father had left him to look after Tom and now Matthew feels responsible. His father is trying to hold back the anger and the blame but the cracks are beginning to show.

One day Matthew is looking through a box of press clippings and video tapes about Tom’s disappearance. Suddenly he hears a ghostly voice on one of the video tapes telling him “you never came for me!”. It’s the voice of his missing brother. He shows the tape to his father, Jake (Greg Wise). This time there’s no voice and Jake flies into a rage as the wound is reopened. Matthew tells his best friend Simon (Tom Felton) about the voices on the tape. Is he losing his mind, is Tom alive or dead?

At home, Matthew plays the tape and hears Tom’s voice again, desperately pleading for help. Then Matthew sees Tom at the window, gaunt and haggard. He rushes out to Tom but no one is there. Matthew strikes up a friendship with next-door neighbour Amy, who is beautiful but troubled. He talks to her about Tom and she suggests he visits a local medium. Matthew is unsure but he is again haunted by nightmarish visions of Tom. When he tries to sleep he has recurring nightmares that he is being buried alive. In desperation he goes to visit Melissa, the medium, who tells him that the area has been cursed through the ages. Her daughter gives Matthew a present, the drawing of a young girl.

The following day Matthew is shocked when he finds out that Simon’s sister, Sophie (Georgia Groome), has been abducted. Matthew realises that the drawing by the mediums daughter is of Sophie. The haunting escalate, Matthew’s state of mind deteriorates. Only Amy seems to believe him, as a tentative romance grows between them. Matthew knows that he needs to get to the bottom of Tom’s disappearance if he is ever going to save Sophie.

There is no going back as he hurtles towards the stark, chilling truth;

The Disappeared;you can’t bury the past