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Georgie is thirty with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Leah is fifteen with teenage dreams. She practices her cum face and Veets. A lot. All-meat, all-sex, all-vulnerable, all-powerful. There's a first time for everything... Isn't there?
Freak premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014.
Anna Jordan's play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014), Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun – Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009). As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed as part of the 2013 Connections Festival. She is Artistic Director of Without a Paddle Theatre, and teaches acting and playwriting.
'stunningly well written... funny, raw, honest, deadpan... Jordan is a wonderful voice' - Exeunt Magazine
'Jordan’s strong script bubbles with a fierce intelligence... darkly funny' - Time Out
'Jordan’s writing is vivid and punchy... a taut, raw but also warm two-hander' - The Stage
'[has] a tenderness to match [its] dry wit... a frank new play by a fresh young voice' - A Younger Theatre
Anna Jordan is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Her play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include: Lost Atoms (Frantic Assembly, Curve Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, 2025); We Anchor in Hope (Bunker Theatre, London, 2019); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2018); Pop Music (Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2018); Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014); and Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), among others. As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed, as part of the 2013 Connections Festival. She is artistic director of Without a Paddle Theatre, associate director at London’s Theatre503, and teaches acting and playwriting.