Acclaimed for his screenplays for television dramas together with Skins, Shameless, The Fades, This is England '86/'88/'90 and Glue, Jack Thorne first emerged as a author of unflinching, compassionate and infrequently difficult performs for the degree. defined as a 'powerful voice for Britain's early life' (Independent), he is still probably the most distinct abilities operating in theatre today.

This assortment, with a revealing advent via the writer, covers a interval of extreme creativity - starting with When You therapy Me (Bush Theatre, 2005), a painful - and painfully humorous - play approximately being very younger and in love, and dealing with severe disease while. 'One of the year's most interesting items of recent writing' Evening Standard

In the monologue play Stacy (Arcola Theatre, 2007), twenty-something Rob tells the tale of a complicated couple of days during which every little thing in his lifestyles turns out to have long gone incorrect. 'A pin-sharp, really good piece of labor' Time Out

2nd could 1997 (Bush Theatre, 2009) distils all of the euphoria and melancholy of latest Labour's landslide electoral victory into 3 tales instructed with 'quiet profundity and verve' (Telegraph), whereas Bunny (Edinburgh Fringe, 2010) is a white-knuckle journey in the course of the streets of latest Britain, written for a solo girl performer. 'Terrific' Scotsman

Red vehicle, Blue Car is a heartbreaking brief play approximately guilt, grief and accountability, written for and played on the Bush in 2011. eventually, Mydidae (Soho Theatre, 2012), a two-hander set totally in a rest room, is an electrifyingly intimate account of the darker aspect of affection which hits audiences 'like a punch within the intestine' (Whatsonstage.com)