Bindweed by Martha Loader

By Martha Loader

★★★★★ 5 Stars British Theatre

“A modern-day classic” 

“A perfect script meets a perfect cast” 

★★★★ 4 Stars The Stage

“It holds us rapt”

★★★★★ 5 stars Colchester Gazette

“An outstanding debut“

Winner of the Judges Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022.

“Thursdays, curry night. Curry and a pint for a fiver. Go at five thirty, home by ten. Beat my mum up for a while. Bed by ten thirty.”

Four men convicted of domestic abuse offences meet each week to undergo a perpetrator programme. But as Jen, the new group facilitator, starts to make progress with the men inside the room, their lives outside begin to buckle.

Bindweed is a shattering and darkly funny new play about responsibility and rehabilitation, which looks at what can be done to tackle abuse at its root.

A Mercury Originals Production co-produced by HighTide and the New Wolsey, in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre.

Content to Consider

This show is for ages 18+. This performance contains swearing, violence, misogynistic conversation, reference to coercive control, rape and sexual assault, reference to murder and suicide, and references to children obtaining and sharing pornography.

Bindweed opens at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, and tours to the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, before transferring to London’s Arcola Theatre.

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