Growth

by Luke Norris

Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way – cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball ache.

96 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2017

Reviews

[Doug]

3.5, rounded down.

Norris, better known as an actor himself, also has wicked good writing chops, as evidenced by this play about a young man dealing with the possibility of testicular cancer (how's that for a subject not often tackled in entertainment?).

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[Victoria Claringbold]

An absorbing play that follows young man Tobes as he confronts the possibility of testicular cancer.

Cleverly structured with Tobes in every scene meeting or encountering different people in his life.

This could be done with 2 male actors and 1 female playing multiple roles or lots more. There is a particularly funny scene with his best friend Joff who he asks to feel his testicle.

I really enjoyed the different characters that Norris has created, each with an opposing objective.

Tobes has to go through a lot but seems to end up wiser for it. He's a likeable anti-hero for the 21st century.