For the second year the Royal Court partners with the Royal Exchange in Manchester
to stage a Bruntwood Prize winner, and following last year's
Yen there's another
kitchen sink drama looking at an easily ignored class, whose every last lifeline the
current government's all too gleefully eager to cut. Tamsin (Erin Doherty) and her
brother Dean (Joseph Quinn) had fairly promising and ordinary lives ahead of them
until their mother's death, which led Tamsin to neglect her education and Dean's
mild OCD to turn into a completely debilitating condition: He's fixated with all
food and drink being scalding hot and has a system of knocking on wood to get him
through the day, but his most obsessive ritual is constantly washing and styling his
hair. He can barely dress himself let alone work, so it's down to Tamsin to support
them both (their father is never mentioned,) but with no qualifications all she can
find is a zero-hours contract packing goods for NOT AMAZON DEFINITELY NOT AMAZON.
