Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

written by Jack Thorne

WEDNESDAY 11 september 2024 - SATURDAY 14 september 2024

Directed by Adam Wade

Following the success of Jack Thorne’s Afterlife last season we bring you another one of his plays about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Thorne is a name that keeps coming up in the West End. From the popular long running production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, to his newly written production When Winston Went to War with the Wireless which ran at the Donmar last year. His most recent production The Motive and the Cue is directed by Sam Mendes starring Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn. The Motive and the Cue was featured in cinemas as part of the National Theatre Live. If Thorne’s good enough for the West End he’s good enough for the Harlequins.

Adam Wade will direct this production, assisted by Ed Green and Laura Elizabeth. All three work together with our Youth Theatre and productions in our main season - Silence, The Unreturning and Home, I’m Darling.

Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all. 

So it's an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.