Burying your Brother In The Pavement

Burying your Brother in the Pavement is a vibrant and provocative new play exploring grief, family, love and growing up. Written by Jack Thorne, who has had recent success with his play's including; Stacy, Fanny and the Faggott, also his writing for E4's new teen cult drama Skins was a huge hit. Despite its serious subject matter, it is fresh and funny and contains song and dance and some sparkling theatricality.

The following is taken from the NT Connections website:

Tom’s brother is dead. He was killed by a broken bottle to the neck... This has upset a lot people..... it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain and in ways his aunties - who keep trying to thrust snack products at him - would never understand. You see, Tom and his brother, Luke, were never friends, were never really much at all, I mean, Tom really didn’t like Luke, but without him…

So it’s an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate - to try and bury him at the point where he was brutally murdered - but, you know, it sort of makes sense. In a kind of upside-down, monkey-type way.

As he goes through due process on pavement burial, Tom comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a travel-card.

This is a play about grief, and looking at someone that little bit more closely - oh, and there are a few songs, bits of dancing, and lots of weird things involving sofas.

Malmesbury School in Wiltshire, England performed it on the 12th, 13th and 14th March 2008 and received great praise. They will be hopefully also performing it at the Theatre Royal in Bath at the beginning of May.

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