‘Thursdays, curry night. Curry and a pint for a fiver. Go at five thirty, home by ten. Beat my mum up for a while. Bed by ten thirty.’
Four men convicted of domestic abuse offences meet each week to undergo a perpetrator programme. But as Jen, the new group facilitator, starts to make progress with the men inside the room, their lives outside begin to buckle.
Martha Loader’s Bindweed won the Judges Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022. It is a shattering and darkly funny new play about responsibility and rehabilitation, which looks at what can be done to tackle abuse at its root.
It is premiered on a UK tour in 2024.
Judges Award, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
