Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles? [Paperback]

Winner of theWriters' GuildBest Play for Young Audiences Award 2022

We're a punk band. A politically motivated Marxist punkband thit waants tae bring doun the rich by any meansnecessary!

It's 1978. Unemployment and violence darken every Glasgow close; Scotland have been knocked out of the World Cup;Greaseis at the top of the charts and seminal Scottish punk band The Jaggy Nettles are imploding.

The Jaggy Nettles will be reuniting on stage to perform brand new punk-inspired songs, keeping the spirit of '78 alive.

Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles?redefines young punks of the 1970s as naive, asexual, idealistic, poetic, wonderful and doomed. It is a play about empowerment and feeling the future is there to be changed; a story as relevant today as ever.

This edition was published to coincide with the February 2020 run at Scottish Youth Theatre.

Martin Traversis a dramatist based at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre where he is Producer for Citizens Learning. He has been on the Playwrights Studio (Scotland)'s mentoring scheme and has been on writing attachment with the National Theatre of Scotland. In 2011, in partnership with Sense over Sectarianism, his playScarfed for Lifetoured secondary schools with a cast of professional actors and members of the Citizens Theatre's Young Company.