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The Shadow of a Boy

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Joint winner of The George Devine Award
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Director Erica Whyman
National Theatre

Luke, a sci-fi obsessed adolescent who lives with his grandmother, is about to start high school. Taunted by his friend, Katie, who warns him of the bullying he'll suffer at the big comp, Luke finds refuge in his alter-ego, Shadow.

Winner of the George Devine Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award.

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Katie’s attempt to induct the nervous Luke into the mysteries of sex is true and funny; so too is Luke’s relaying of the kind of furtive boy-talk in which his contemporaries engage. Michael Billington
The Guardian

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