Holes in the Skin (NHB Modern Plays)

A gripping play about the nature of violence.

15-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mum's new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and asks him to do something about it, she finds herself adrift in a landscape of physical brutality, drugs - and, eventually, love.

'Marvellously mature and dramatically engrossing' - Guardian

'Hypnotic ... a shimmering, wistful evocation of lost innocence' - The Times

Auteur

Robert Holman is a renowned and celebrated playwright in British Theatre. His plays include: Mud (Royal Court, 1974); Rooting (Traverse, 1979); Other Worlds (Royal Court, 1980); Today (RSC, 1984); The Overgrown Path (Royal Court, 1985); Making Noise Quietly (Bush, 1987, and revived at the Donmar, 2012); Across Oka (RSC, 1988); Rafts and Dreams (Royal Court, 1990); Bad Weather (RSC, 1998); Holes in the Skin (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2003); Jonah And Otto (Royal Exchange Theatre, 2008, and revived at the Park Theatre, 2014); and A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (co-written with David Eldridge and Simon Stephens, Lyric Hammersmith, 2010). Most recently his play A Breakfast of Eels premiered at the Print Room (2015).