Core Cuts presents the best new plays from the brightest new talents of Soho Young Writers Core Group.

3 December, 7pm

Boom

by Ali Muriel

London, Winter of 1894: the capital is in uproar. A French Anarchist has blown himself up in Soho's Royalty Theatre. His attack claimed only one victim: a young printer’s assistant called Martin Bentley.

Under the glare of the nation's press, Martin's mother leads the charge to ban Anarchism from Britain, his sister, Emily, becomes seduced by Soho radicalism, and the battle for Martin's memory begins...

The Struggle According To Offor

by Lizzy Dijeh

A Nigerian family struggles to reconcile their differing cultural identities, traditions and fractured inter-generational relationships. While exploring conflict and discord within urban youth today, a father's well-meaning yet destructive legacy is exposed.

10 December, 7pm

A Mortal Man

by Fleur Brooklin Smith

Debbie is married to Ron. Karen is married to Arthur. Twenty years of marital bliss… until Debbie and Karen discover they share the same husband!

That very afternoon Ron (Arthur?) kicks the proverbial bucket, leaving both women in dire financial straits. Debbie and Karen join forces to conceal their husband’s death, thereby avoiding the dreaded tax-man and seeking revenge against the man they once shared.

The Cuts

A series of short extracts from our current Core Group writers.

Soho Young Writers' programme is supported by The Foundation for Sport and the Arts, John Lyon's Charity, the Mackintosh Foundation and The Mercer's Company.