Gun to your Head at VAULT Theatre

Meet Dakota and Bede: two teenage misfits on the run. 

GUN TO YOUR HEAD is the highly anticipated full-length stage premiere by Simon Jaggers. A punk-production exploring the brilliance of youth in darkest England.

A DEEP DIVE INTO THE POWER OF YOUTH AND A HOWL FOR BELONGING

It's summer and teenage runaways Dakota and Bede are hiding out in an abandoned quarry, buried deep in the belly of England. It's a magical, frightening place, where youth tangles with death and dreams are forgotten. A razor-edged playground in which our tearaways can escape their troubled pasts and create impossible futures.

In this riotous punk-play of pop culture, games and reddit folklore, the stakes keep rising. Gun to your head… what could go wrong? 

A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED PLAY

‘Simon Jaggers is a visionary from England’s wastelands. A poet finding beauty in the broken. Gun To Your Head is a celebration of a play. Like a Disco Pigs for England’s ghost hours. It’s so beautiful it’s actually ludicrous.’ — Simon Stephens, playwright

‘Simon Jaggers writes with precision, wit and humanity. He’s a playwright of real promise.’  

— David Eldridge, Playwright and Screenwriter

‘Gun to your Head’ is a kind of Thelma and Louise for Generation Z, it genuinely feels like it might be that rarest of things: a classic in the making.’ 

— Simon Usher & Colin Ellwood, Joint Artistic Directors at Presence Theatre

About the writer:

Simon Jaggers is a playwright from London. He has been personally mentored by award winning playwrights Simon Stephens and David Eldridge. Last year he won a place on The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 21/22 and this year his play Manifest Release Machine was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. He is also a songwriter/performer and spent his youth playing in punk bands - supporting headliners The Strokes, Babyshambles and Violent Femmes. Gun to your Head will be his full-length stage premiere.

Credits: Theatre503, Soho Theatre, Bread & Roses, The Bunker and Southwark Playhouse.  

https://simonjaggers.wordpress.com/