FORT
30 November 2024
Event details
1am. An Iron Age hillfort in North Dorset.
Fifteen-year-old best friends, Viv and Daisy, wait for a ghost.
Away from dysfunctional families and small-town gossip, up on Fort, Viv and Daisy can be entirely themselves. With so much beyond their control, Fort is their stomping ground. Their escape. Until the ghost turns up.
Best friends for as long as they can remember, their bond has survived school bullies, witchcraft, jealousy and vengeful cows. But at the end of a summer when everything is changing, can it survive the ghost?
Originally drafted on a Royal Court Introductory Group, Fort was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2022 and shortlisted for the Masterclass Pitch Your Play Award.
Running Time
1 hour 10 minutes
Warnings
Explores themes of, or contains reference to, teenage pregnancy, abortion, childbirth, death of animals and mental illness.
Further information
Discounts
Groups 10+ £2.00 off.
Student Special £5.00 off with a valid student ID
Schools/Young People’s Group 10+ £5.00 off plus one free supervisor with every 10 tickets purchased*
*Not available online, please contact schools@mayflower.org.uk to book.
About the playwright
Tabitha Hayward is a writer of plays, poems and stories, originally from North Dorset, currently based in London. Her plays have been performed at the Southwark Playhouse, the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford, and the Black Cherry in Bournemouth. She was shortlisted for Masterclass Pitch Your Play Award in 2023 and the Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award 2020 and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2022. She was selected to take part in a Royal Court Introductory Group in 2019 and is also a poet who has been shortlisted for national and international poetry competitions.
