Saints

Luke Barnes is a Northern born award-winning writer. He studied at the National Youth Theatre and the Oxford School of Drama and was the Leverhulme Playwright on attachment to Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres. His critically acclaimed play Bottleneck had a successful run at Soho and his first play Chapel Street ran at the Old Red Lion in Liverpool and in Edinburgh where it won the Old Vic New Voices award. After Edinburgh, Chapel Street ran at The Bush as part of Radar Season then toured the UK. In 2012 he was shortlisted for an OffWestEnd Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. He has worked with National Youth Theatre, Hightide Festival and the Nuffield among others.

In turn funny and touching, the script takes on current themes relevant to urban societies - alcohol, drugs, porn culture, debt, austerity, disability, single-parent families, bereavement - and deals with them without much sensationalism, but as just the daily circumstances that the central character, Kenny Glynn, has to negotiate in his journey towards adulthood.