TOI TOI Ages 14+: SHOUT

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TOI TOI presents a Teatru Manoel Youth Theatre production of SHOUT by Alexis Zegerman

In a world full of words, how can Dana survive when she can’t speak? Dana has selective mutism, but that doesn’t stop her vivid imagination.

Shout is a funny, moving play about anxiety, celebrating difference, and finding your voice. A play that wonders what exactly it takes to overcome anxiety and mental health issues when you’re a teenager.

It’s not just the noise you make that makes you who you are.

Directed by Petra Sant with lighting design by Gianluca Bianco and Stage Management by Kat Bouker.

Alexis Zegerman’s theatre work includes The Fever Syndrome (Hampstead Theatre); Holy Shit (Kiln Theatre); The Steingolds (National Theatre Studio – Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2012); Lucky Seven (Hampstead Theatre -Pearson Writer in Residence 2008-2009); Killing Brando (Oran Mor, a Play a Pie and a Pint season/Paines Plough Theatre Company at the Young Vic); I Ran the World (Royal Court/Flight 5065); Marriage and Noise (Soho Theatre). Alexis is currently under commission with Hampstead Theatre and the Manhattan Theater Club, New York.

Her film work includes the screenplay of Arthur’s Whiskey, starring Diane Keaton and David Harewood; The Honeymoon Suite (Palm Springs Film Festival, UK Jewish Film Festival, New York Short Film Festival, Encounters, Winner of the Pears Film Fund Award). Her radio work includes the two comedy series Mum’s on the Run and School Runs and radio plays are Déjà Vu (Prix Europa Special Commendation); Jump; The Singing Butler; Are You Sure? and Ronnie Gecko (Richard Imison Award).

Content guidance

• The play explores experiences of anxiety disorders.
• Moments of characters struggling with poor mental health.

This an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.