Bindweed by Martha Loader

By Martha Loader

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.

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