Script Club and Boundless Theatre Announce World Premiere of DRIP

From 1 - 10 November, as part of Back to Ours festival for the Hull UK City of Culture we are proud to partner with Script Club to present Drip, a one man musical comedy about a 15-year old boy who signs up to Hull's first ever synchronised swimming team, though he can't swim. It tells a story of pride, friendship, and being a queer teenager in Hull. Drip is performed by Andrew Reed, directed by Jane Fallowfield and the book and lyrics is by Tom Wells and music by Matthew Robins. Drip is a Script Club production, supported by Hull City Council and Hull UK City of Culture and in partnership with Boundless Theatre.

Drip was created with and for young people in Hull, through the Script Club project. A playwright works in their local community to write a new play. The first Script Club play was 'Cosmic' by Tom Wells (Hull and East Riding); the second was 'Germ Free Adolescent' by Natalie Mitchell (Medway). 'Drip' will be the third Script Club production and the first musical, by writer Tom Wells and musician Matthew Robins.

'Drip' will tour across the city of Hull, as part of Hull 2017's Back to Ours programme - which takes high quality new work to unexpected spaces at the heart of local communities, at Hull Truck Theatre, and in additional pop up performances in venues beyond Hull.

The production is funded by Arts Council England, Hull City Council and Hull City of Culture.

Boundless Theatre Artistic Director Rob Drummer says: "it is a real privilege to be supporting Script Club and partnering on the production of Drip by Tom Wells. This is an exciting and innovative model that places young adults at the heart new writing, leading to the world premiere of a new play in Hull. Boundless Theatre exists to promote and challenge what theatre for teenage and young adult audiences can be and we're thrilled to be working with such talented artists at an exciting moment for Hull during the City of Culture year."

Director of Drip, Jane Fallowfield says: "We are proud to be making a play that we hope will reflect the brilliant, intelligent, courageous and hilarious young people we have met in Hull."

Writer of Drip, Tom Wells says: "I've really enjoyed working with groups of teenagers in Hull as part of the writing process. I hope some of their spirit, humour and insight shines out of the play."

Boundless Theatre search for the best new unproduced plays for teenage and young adult audiences.

Boundless Theatre is committed to discovering, developing and producing the best new plays for a young adult audience, especially from playwrights who might not be currently known to us. We are therefore opening a script submission window on 9 September 2017 which will close on 9 December 2017. We are looking for plays that provoke and challenge what theatre for our audience of 15-25 year olds looks like, are relevant to a generation growing up now and that represent the diversity of the UK.

After our recent success with Natives, we now want to start relationships with writers and theatre makers who are excited by a Gen Z audience who are activists, fearless, cultured and sophisticated with diverse tastes and interests. We know that theatre can be a vital and vibrant part of youth culture but want to be provoked by new stories that demonstrate and disrupt the notion of a play for a young adult audience.

Submissions can be made from today through the Boundless Theatre website and all scripts will be read by the Artistic and Producing team, as well as a panel of young adults who represent our audiences. Although we can't resource feedback to all scripts, we will enter in to conversations with those writers whose work we seek to develop further.

Artistic Director Rob Drummer says: "Theatre is the perfect space to forge community and at a time when growing up in an uncertain world dominates our timelines, feeds and airwaves; we have a sophisticated, activist and demanding audience who need authentic stories that represent the experience of being young right now. We want to meet new writers, theatre makers and storytellers who have work that will connect to 15-25 year olds and that we can take out to audiences across the country. Alongside commissioning we want to meet writers who may be unknown to us and with this first submission window are asking playwrights to provoke us with ambitious new work that will resonate with our audiences."

Full details on how to submit and what Boundless are looking for can be found on the company's website.

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