First Performance 25/03/2013
Closing 25/03/2013

The King’s Head Theatre and East 15 Acting School presents the winner and runner up of the inaugural Stella Wilkie Award.

WINNER: Stelle Wilkie Award 2013
Sandpits Avenue
Gwilliam’s back to the sandpit, back to the start, back to his girl, like they’ve never been apart. Slam poetry, folk music and physical theatre effortlessly merge, telling the story of one boy’s return from war and the secret he hides.

RUNNER UP:
League Of Saint George
A coming-of-age story set in London in the 1970s, Adam grows up in a place of little opportunity. To save him from a life of monotony he finds comradeship, excitement and power through the fascist brotherhood of the ‘League of St George’. Drawn into an intolerant and bigoted lifestyle, how do you cope when you realise you are gay? Social and sexual identity collide violently in an equally violent world. All that’s left to ask is… Skin, Head or Heart?

 

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