Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles?

Winner of the Writers’ Guild Best Play for Young Audiences Award 2022We’re a punk band. A politically motivated Marxist punk band thit waants tae bring doun the rich by any means necessary!It’s 1978. Unemployment and violence darken every Glasgow close; Scotland have been knocked out of the World Cup; Grease is 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.