Consensual

An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.

As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the new 'Healthy Relationships' curriculum. But then Freddie arrives. She hasn't seen him since that night six years earlier when he was fifteen.

She thinks he took advantage of her. He thinks she groomed him for months. Neither is sure. But when it comes to sex and consent, how far can you blur the lines?

Evan Placey's Consensual was first performed by the National Youth Theatre in their 2015 West End season.



Evan Placey is a Canadian-British playwright who grew up in Toronto and now lives in London, England. His plays include Consensual (National Youth Theatre, 2015 West End season); Girls Like That (commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mother of Him (Courtyard Theatre; winner of the King's Cross Award for New Writing, RBC National Playwriting Competition, Canada, and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest); Banana Boys (Hampstead Theatre); Suicide(s) in Vegas (Canadian tour; Centaur Theatre Award nomination); Scarberia (Forward Theatre Project/York Theatre Royal); How Was It For You? (Unicorn Theatre); Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Project/schools tour/Unicorn Theatre; winner of the Brian Way Award 2012 for Best Play for Young People; Writers' Guild Award nomination) and Pronoun (National Theatre Connections). Work for radio includes Mother of Him (BBC Radio 3/Little Brother Productions). Evan is a Creative Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Southampton, and also teaches playwriting to young people for various theatres, and also in prisons.



'Consensual is designed to shake your moral compass to its core... Evan Placey's intelligent, gripping new play about a pupil-teacher relationship offers a 360 degree view of a situation that most of us only read about in one-dimensional headlines... The fierce, funny classroom banter and sharp put downs, give the piece its heart and mind... [a] compelling play for our times'



'Lively, sparky and ballsy as heck… gets the brain pounding and the blood pumping'