This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2018 London's biggest & most exciting arts festival Young men are dying & everyone assumes they're just casualties of London's chemsex scene Everyone that is but Anthony who is determined to investigate Tumulus by Christopher Adams is a chilling queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath Critically acclaimed during its run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe Lucy Burke's Glitter Punch
- set in Greater Manchester
- charts a troubling new relationship between mysterious John & sixteen-year-old Molly a love that will change their lives forever Powerful' (The Stage) Set in a Wigan taxi Burkas & Bacon Butties by Shamia Chalabi & Sarah Henley is a heart-warming comedy abouttaxi-driver Ashraf & his twenty-something daughter Shaz as they negotiate the ups & downs of living in a mixed-culture family When bereaved mother Mary finds a disembodied arm a conspiracy builds maybe her child isn't quite so dead after all Shortlisted for Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award Sami Ibrahim's Wind Bit Bitter Bit Bit Bit Her is an enthralling monologue about love & loss The Strongbox by Stephanie Jacob is a story of domestic servitude & abuse of power as authoritarian Kat her ageing mother Ma & their teenaged slave Maudie jostle for power
- & affection
- in their dilapidated London home