Harry & Thick Skin: Two Plays: Two Plays

HARRY

Caitlin and Sophie meet at university and quickly become best friends. United by their love of crisp sandwiches and the latest X Factor sensation, One Direction, they plaster the walls of their room with pictures of the band’s charismatic heartthrob, Harry Styles. But over time, the obsession that initially brings them together starts to have more damaging effects.

Poor Michelle presents ‘Harry’ - a play about friendship and fandom, exploring the impact on young people of a celebrity-obsessed, Twitter-fuelled culture where fantasy and reality are dangerously close.

THICK SKIN

Peter's making a film about his girlfriend Naomi. His best mate Jess tells jokes to half empty rooms, and Oli is trying to distract himself from the fact that he has The World's Most Boring Job.

They're millennials, but don't let that put you off. They're just trying to become decent people in a city so disorientating that you can end up telling your biggest fears to a stranger on the bus.

In a generation that couldn't be more liberal and accepting, 'Thick Skin' looks at who really controls the conversation, and whether good intentions are always enough.