Fifth Word and Nottingham Playhouse Present ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS

"In a world where nobody wants you, what would you do to survive?"

This March, Tron Theatre is delighted to welcome Fifth Word's ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS, a poignant, moving and darkly funny, award-winning play by Jane Upton, written with support from charity Safe and Sound. Jane Upton was joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS explores the dangers of child sexual exploitation and what can happen when society looks the other way. Three girls, slipping through the cracks in society are desperately searching for friendship, family and themselves. Joanne and Lisa were like sisters. Then Lisa left. Now they're back together for one last birthday party by the railway tracks. But can they salvage their friendship or will ghosts from the past haunt them forever?

Writer Jane Upton: "As part of my research, I looked at news articles about child victims of all different crimes. It soon became clear that the children who make the news are often the ones who represent our perfect ideal of childhood. Children that won't garner much sympathy don't attract as many column inches. As Joanne says in the play: "Aint no one looking for people like me."

"I wanted to write a play about this girl and how she is trapped. I chose not to give the men a voice at all. I wanted it to be all about her and her friends and how they survive, or don't."