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Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban; playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by. Sometimes their mum Maggie visits, usually with empty pockets and empty promises. Then Jenny shows up. This Bruntwood Prize–winning play explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of growing up on your own.
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.