Fifteen year old best friends Kai, TJ & Zara have been tight since, well, forever. Always together. Inseperable. But as they've grown older things have begun to change. Why did life start to get so complicated? When did the world stop seeing them as children and start demanding that they behave according to some script written in stone and carved decades before their birth? And when did the weight of that stone start to crush them - slowly and imperceptibly at first, until they could hardly breath? 

Based on an idea by Shereener Browne and written by Christina Alagarathnam, PlayFight examines the corrosive way in which racism determines the direction young Black lives take.

Directed by Leian John-Baptiste (Waterfalls, Stop and Search, Barbershop Chronicles, is god is) with movement by Rhyss Dennis of FUBU Nation, fight direction by Kevin McCurdy (Othello, Twelfth Night)  costume & set design by Eliandro Monteiro , lighting by Filip Vermeiren of Inverse Lighting Design, & sound by Kieron Morris of Rezon8, PlayFight promises to be an unflinching look at the adultification of an entire generation of young Black males.

Triggers: Trauma. Depression. Mental Health. Recommended minimum age: 15 years. Approx running time: 70 mins, no interval.

PlayFight transferred from the Pleasance to the Seven Dials Playhouse on 10 July 2023 for a 4 week run, where the team was joined by Jordan Edwards-Wilks, aka Jords as executive producer.

In late September 2019, after a three-day rehearsal period, we staged two rehearsed readings of PlayFight. Directed by Josh Hinds, the readings - one at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, and the other at the Matchstick Piehouse Theatre in Deptford - received a rapturous welcome from a sold out house.