15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. Now it is 7 minutes after midnight, and Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.
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2012, Royal National Theatre, London
2012
Bloomsbury Publishing
9781408173350
Recipient of the Tony Award for best play in 2015.
Recipient of the Tony Award for best play in 2015.
Realistic
"A Secret Life is an environmental multi-media play. The audience journeys through the mind of the play's protagonist, Doug McGrath. Doug has just arrived at a new school and as he befriends his fellow students he fabricates a secret life in order to hide the truth behind his family's poverty. Eventually Doug's secret is exposed and he is forced to face the consequences of his lies and make hard choices about his future." - playdatabase.com
Solo Show
Bang! Boy Bang! is a multi-media one-person show. The play follows a teenager named Rod Clarke as he struggles to retrace his activities at a party that took place one drunken night. His distorted memory eventually reveals his relationship with his troubled family, his chauvinistic brother, and a girl named Laura he met at the party. Bang! Boy Bang! explores social and sexual mores and the explosive issue of date rape.
