You and Me, Us and Them
By Lucy Catherine. Tasha is losing her child to another world, another class, another gender. An elegiac play about the compromises of tribalism, and love across the divide.
When working-class Tasha questions the non-platforming of a local politician, she is branded a bigot, suspended from her job, and frozen out. Meanwhile her 17-year-old daughter, Marie, has been wrestling with insecurities about her appearance and the unwelcome attentions of boys at school.
Refuge comes in the form of a new identity as non-binary ‘Max’ and a middle-class friendship group steeped in the world of social justice politics. Each becomes uncomfortably embedded in communities that they know misrepresent the other.
An elegiac play about the compromises of tribalism, the desperate search for common ground, and love across the divide.
Mum.... Claire-Louise Cordwell
Marie/Max...... Maddie Evans
Writer - Lucy Catherine
Director - Jessica Dromgoole
Production Manager - Sally Richardson
Illustrator - Isobel Platt
Executive Producer - Eloise Whitmore
A Naked production for BBC Radio 4
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- Thu 27 Aug 202614:15BBC Radio 4
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