At a music festival, three teenagers strike up a friendship and gradually reveal their histories of self-harm. As the festival takes place just after taking their GCSEs, Nina Lemon's new play Hidden may feel disconnected from these COVID times, but this lively and touching script is packed full of relevant messages, delivered without preaching and with pace.
What makes this play work so well is the dovetailing of stories, so that we are always kept on tenterhooks. Bit by bit, we find out just why Matt (consumed by exam anxiety), Tash (haunted by a traumatic childhood) and Sophia (struggling with poor body image) sink into self-harm; and the answer is never obvious. As Tash points out, ‘not everyone who self-harms has a screwed up abusive childhood.’
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