Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

By Jack Thorne.

“My brother died. Badly. It’s that simple really…”

Acclaimed writer Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) explores grief and looking at someone a little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. Tom didn't really like Luke at all. So it's an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard. Burying Your Brother In The Pavement comes to life at the Corpus Playroom as the Freshers’ Play for Week 6.

Content warning: Some strong language, themes of suicide, depiction of blood, mention of homophobia.