Plays

Chunnel of Love
Script by Graham Cole & Mark Wheeller
Duration: 100 minutes.
Cast: 25 (11 f., 8m. & 6 m. or f.) Doubling can obviously reduce the cast number.

Selected for and presented at the Sunday Times/BBC National Student Drama Festival.

Extracts from this play appear on the new Wheellerplays Definitive Author's Collection DVD

A bi-lingual play (80% English & 20% French) about unplanned teenage pregnancy. Lucy is fourteen. Everything in life is going well for her. She hopes to become a vet and is working hard to gain good grades in her GCSE exams. Suddenly these plans are thrown into confusion as she discovers she is pregnant. She faces a series of major decisions, not least of which is what to tell the father ... a French boy she met on the School Exchange.

"A sensitive and hugely important treatment of a relatively neglected youth issue. The writers have an unerring feel for the attitudes and concerns of young people and they bring to the play a strong emotional charge, which, without glossing over her folly, retains our sympathy for the central character throughout. This is tellingly complemented by information, advice and argument directed as much at parents as at the youngsters themselves. A powerful and moving plea for young people to be given the support and understanding which they have a right to expect."
Mick Martin - Times Educational Supplement

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