This work features an hour-long play that deals with the nervous breakdown of an adolescent boy through drug and alcohol misuse. It is a highly lyrical and poetic play that juxtaposes the lyricism of the language with the darkness of the experiences being represented. This is a play that grabs the reader.

 

This book is part of a book series called Plays With Attitude .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This is a play book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .

Andrew Fusek Peters is Britain's tallest poet. He travels the country visiting schools with his weird and wonderful poems, plays and digeridu and juggles a bit. Andrew lives in an old chapel in Shropshire with his wife and young daughter. Polly Peters is a former English and Drama teacher. She was previously Head of Drama at a sixth form college and currently works as a youth/community theatre leader, director and playwright.