Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

by Jack Thorne

Tom’s brother is dead. He was killed by a broken bottle to the neck This has upset a lot of people but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain. Tom really didn’t like Luke, but without him… This is a play about grief, and looking at someone that little bit more closely. 

Jack Thorne’s plays for the stage include When You Cure Me at the Bush, in New York, and for BBC Radio 3; Fanny and Faggot in Edinburgh, at the Finborough, the English Theatre of Bruges and Trafalgar Studios; and Stacy at the Tron, Arcola and Trafalgar Studios. Radio plays include Left At The Angel on BBC Radio 4. His TV writing includes episodes of Skins, Shameless and the 30-minute drama The Spastic King. His short film A Supermarket Love Song was shown at Sundance 2006. Jack Thorne is currently Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Bush.

Performed by RSAMD Youth Works

The search for identity pulses through New Connections 2008: for acceptance and survival in modern Britain, for racial equality in 1960s South Africa, by deception in magical allotments, during white-out in a snow blizzard, through parenting, through faith, or by comic mistakes of social networking.