Nothing

An innovative play which won four awards at 2014’s National Student Drama Festival. A striking debut.

In Nothing eight young people – including a Vandal, a Stalker and a Porn Girl – recount their experiences, capturing the apathy rampant in today’s youth.

YetNothing is much more than a series of monologues. It is about – among other things – cupcakes, action films, crap television, shitting, sex, buses and stalking. It is about alienation and being young.

Initially written as eight monologues by Lulu Raczka (winner of the Sunday Times Young Playwriting Award), Nothing asks questions about the nature of theatre itself. In its original production by Barrel Organ Theatre the performers improvised a new cut with every performance, each starting the show without knowing which particular monologue they would be performing on that occasion. Nothing is thus a game for both performer and audience, but