Publicity Manager/Assistant Director

Lads of the Flies by Grace Donaldson

Selected by a panel of judges at the University of Glasgow to attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The production completed its run with multiple five-star reviews, sold-out shows, and a shortlisting for two Scottish Theatre Awards.

When a group of four teenage boys (all played by female-presenting actors) get lost in the wilderness on their Duke of Edinburgh trip, they feud, flirt and fornicate in a way that forces us (and them) to ask – is there any hope for the modern man?

Created by a team of solely student theatre-makers, Lads of the Flies is a bitingly funny satire of the performativity of gender and the artifice of patriarchal masculinity. Utilising elements of metatheatre and innovative cross-gender casting, the play comedically re-examines its iconic source material through a radically queer and feminist lens. Throughout the 50-minute runtime, a slew of current pop-cultural references provide razor-sharp insight into the ever-relevant themes of puberty, sexuality and what it means to be a man in the modern world.