Following their recent success at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Paperback are delighted to announce their new show We Need to Talk About Bobby (off EastEnders) will be transferring to the King’s Head Theatre for two nights on the 25th and 26th March.
This timely play presents an on-stage examination of the film and TV industry, asking questions about how we gaze at child actors on screen and treat them off camera. It directly responds to recent shows and films such as Stranger Things, Game of Thrones (and even EastEnders) in which child actors are thrown into the public limelight whilst performing in shows they are not even allowed to watch because of age ratings.
Director Lucy Bird says, “this is a play about how we treat actors, about when artists forget they are humans and use them like props. But it’s also a play about being a teenager, how isolating that experience can be and how poorly we, as adults and guardians, handle opening up difficult conversations with young people about sex, violence and pubescence in today’s society”
Paperback are an emerging company, based in the West Midlands, made of graduates from the University of Warwick. They use a vigourous mix of devising, writing and questions to create entertaining and exciting work which asks urgent questions about the stories we choose to remember and the stories we make now.
We Need to Talk About Bobby (off EastEnders) is at The King’s Head Theatre 25th and 26th March 2018.
