Chalk Farm [Paperback]

Shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Emerging Talent Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Maggie is just in from Sainsburys Local to make a quick sandwich for Jamie. He likes his cheese and pickle. With the crusts off. A good heart, that lad. Not like those other boys around here. You know what boys are like. Laws unto themselves once they reach that age. But its those other boys, really. Not Jamie. A boy with a Batman lunch box? What harm is he to anybody?

Co-written by AJ Taudevin and Kieran Hurley, Chalk Farm explores love, responsibility, and the culture of blame and retribution surrounding the 2011 English riots.

Kieran Hurley is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre-maker based in Glasgow whose work has been presented internationally and throughout the UK through his work with organizations such as The Arches, Oran Mor, Traverse, BAC, Bush, National Theatre of Scotland and Forest Fringe.

AJ Taudevin is a writer whose credits includeChalk Farm,Demons,The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Showwith Oran Mor,UNtruth(Traverse) andThe YelloWing(Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival). She is currently on a year-long attachment with the Traverse Theatre as part of the Traverse Fifty.

The writing is brilliant, sharp, poetic, passionate, full of searing insight into the politics of blame, matched with a brilliant eye for the detail of life in divided Britain today. Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

This deceptively simple two-hander comes courtesy of Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, two of Scotland's rising new writing stars Guardian

A tender study of the complicated relationship between a single parent and her son - it has a beautiful heart Time Out

Most effective in making us rethink our knee-jerk assumptions. Guardian

The end result is a not-to-be missed piece of dynamite that succeeds in making the political personal, and vice-versa -l8