Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Kat Rose-Martin’s new play £1 Thursdays, which plays at London’s Finborough Theatre from 28 November - 22 December.

Directed by Vicky Moran, £1 Thursdays is a new coming of age story set in 2012, which captures and celebrates the trials and tribulations of what it means to be young, Northern and working class, when for one Vodka-blurred second, you’re allowed to forget everything else. An expressive and honest portrait of the lives of so many young britains on the cusp of possible opportunity… AND DANCING.

Monique Ashe-Palmer (Six, West End) and Yasmin Taheri (Royal Shakespeare Company) will play Stacey and Jen respectively, 17 year-olds who have been best friends, since forever. Stacey dreams of being a dancer, whilst Jen is Oxbridge-smart. Yet all ‘smart’ gives her is the ability to see that there’s no use trying to change the story prewritten for her, growing up in an underfunded and forgotten Bradford in the 2010s.

Their one escape is Club Ocean on a Thursday Night and the freedom it brings. Freedom from controlling boyfriends, menopausal mums and the dreaded finality of having to leave school. The Freedom to get messy, peel themselves off pavements, and wake up knowing they’d pulled someone last night and hoping they were at least a 6 out of 10.

Completing the cast of £1 Thursdays are Joseph Ayre (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, National Theatre) and Sian Breckin (Yen, Royal Court/Royal Exchange Theatre).

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