Stealing Sweets and Punching People

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Emily is sixteen. She lives with her dad and works in a junk shop with no customers. Shes got a nose like a white strawberry, hair like a demented angel and a terrible, terrible secret Adolescence, sexuality and guilt come together in this richly theatrical, macabre and often hilarious play about an ordinary life going badly wrong Stealing Sweets and Punching People was produced at the Latchmere Theatre, London, in October 2003.

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Phil Porter is a multi-award-winning playwright and librettist. His work has been produced at Manchester Royal Exchange, Northampton Theatre Royal, The Unicorn Theatre and The Royal Opera House. His plays include Vice Versa (RSC), The Man With The Hammer (Plymouth Theatre Royal), The Christmas Truce (RSC), Blink (Soho/nabokov), The Cracks In My Skin (Manchester Royal Exchange, Bruntwood Award winner) and Stealing Sweets And Punching People (Theatre 503/Off-Broadway). Edits/adaptations include Molieres The Miser (West End, with Sean Foley), Middletons A Mad World, My Masters (RSC, with Sean Foley), Shakespeares The Tempest (RSC/Little Angel) and Janos Hays The Stonewatcher (National Theatre). Plays/libretti for young audiences include Moominsummer Madness (Polka/Northampton), The Flying Machine (Unicorn Theatre), Smashed Eggs (Pentabus, winner of Arts Council Childrens Award) and Pinocchio (Royal Opera House).