A searing, unsettling exploration of girlhood, power, and survival at the dawn of the smartphone age.
Following critically acclaimed, sold-out success in London at Playhouse East and the King’s Head Theatre, the award-winning Lambslaughter heads home to Merseyside at Shakespeare North Playhouse.
Set in a Catholic girls’ school in Merseyside in 2013, the play follows sixth-formers Chloe and Jade, and their increasingly blurred relationship with their English teacher, Mr Barrett.
In the absence of parental supervision and under the influence of social media—personified by the vitriolic, anonymous Twitter account @OurLadyProbz—the girls navigate a world failing to care for them with razor-sharp wit that masks a growing desperation.
Show DETAILS
Venue Space
Studio
Length
1 hour 30 mins (no interval)
Age Guidance
Suitable for 16+
★★★★★ Phenomenal and profound... captivating from beginning to end.
Theatre and Tonic
Lambslaughter captures the strange intensity of teenage consciousness with an honesty that feels almost documentary. It does not sentimentalise girlhood. It remembers it.
A Young(ish) Perspective
★★★★★ A hilariously poignant exploration of girlhood in a digital age.
Theatre Weekly
★★★★ Captures the strange intensity of teenage consciousness with an honesty that feels almost documentary.
A Young(ish) Perspective
