Losing It: A Play about Coming Together and Falling Apart
By Nina Lemon
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In addition to the play we provide a complimentary Teachers' Pack, a guide for educators on how best to discuss the difficult topics examined by the play in a classroom environment, in addition to containing a range of comprehensive teaching resources and student worksheets.
We update the Teachers' Pack each year in accordance with the play.
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Losing It - Nina Lemon
PROLOGUE
Year 13 enter. It is their last day of secondary school. Throughout the play the class will watch on as we flashback to various times during their previous seven years at secondary school. The class play their younger selves and also comment on the action with the benefit of their experience.
ROB: We are the class of 2019. (Insert most recent school leavers’ year.)
POPPY: We have a shared history
DAVID: We share our stories
MELANIE: We overlap
SALLY: We coincide
SEREN: Where one story finishes
TIM: Another one starts.
ASH: We know each other’s dark stuff
CHARLOTTE: The stuff we don’t care to talk about
MELANIE: The people we cared about
POPPY: And I can’t believe it’s over
SALLY: And we’re getting ready to say goodbye
MADDIE: Seven years at secondary school
ROB: Seven years to work it all out
POPPY: Some of us fell in love
SEREN: Some of us fell apart
CHARLOTTE: All of us changed
DAVID: None of us were quite the same as when we started
POPPY: As little kids in year 7
MIKE: Just eleven
MELANIE: Bags were bigger
SALLY: Skirts were longer
CHARLOTTE: Our minds got changed
MIKE: Voices got deeper
ROB: As our bodies grew taller
MADDIE: Not kids no more
SALLY: But young men and women
DAVID: And I keep thinking
POPPY: How did all this happen?
ROB: How did we get here?
MELANIE: Through first loves and/
ROB: And/first times
CHARLOTTE: Innocent kisses
SEREN: And horrendous crimes
POPPY: But we survived.
TIM: The words we’ll use, they’re big and they’re bold
ASH: So if you’re easily offended you might want to close your eyes and ears
SEREN: ’Cause we will tell you the truth just how it happened. We’re not going to clean it up
MADDIE: Or patronise you ’cause you’ve probably had enough of that already.
DAVID: ’Cause now most schools tell you how to put on a condom but, all that other stuff
SALLY: That’s missed out
MIKE: And we’re left trying to fill in the gaps.
MADDIE: This play is sex education with a difference.
ROB: We are the class of 2019.
POPPY: And this is our story.
SCENE 1
DAVID: Year 7.
POPPY: We are 11 years old.
ASH: The first year of big school and none of us have a clue.
POPPY: I feel grown up.
DAVID: I feel small.
ASH: I feel sick.
POPPY: The three of us knew each other from before.
ASH: So we stuck together.
DAVID: Helped each other out until…
A group of older kids barge past and the trio are separated. Four year 7 girls MELANIE, SALLY, MADDIE and CHARLOTTE appear.
MADDIE: Is he your boyfriend?
POPPY: What?
SALLY: Are you and him together?
POPPY: What? Err No way. Yuck.
MADDIE: Don’t say it like that. I would.
MELANIE: Would ya?
SALLY: Yeah. Wouldn’t you?
CHARLOTTE: Oh yeah, yeah. I totally would.
POPPY: You’d what?
MADDIE: He’s cute
POPPY: What would you do?
MADDIE: I’m just saying I would and she would. We would.
POPPY: You would what?
MELANIE: What?
ASH: You keep saying I would, she would, we would. Well you would what?
MELANIE: There’s no need to be like that about it.
ASH: Like what?
MADDIE: Maybe she fancies him?
ASH: I don’t.
SALLY: Just as well ’cause I don’t think he would with someone like you.
ASH: Thanks.
MADDIE: No offence. You’re just not…
POPPY: What’s she not?
SALLY: You know…
POPPY: Not really.
MELANIE: Look we’re just saying we would with him but he wouldn’t with her ’cause she’s not…
ASH: Is anyone going to complete a sentence?
SALLY: Ssshh he’s coming…
DAVID: Oh err hi.
The girls run away giggling.
DAVID: What was that about?
ASH: I literally have no idea.
DAVID: Girls are weird.
ASH: Yeah.
POPPY: No we’re not.
DAVID: What’s going on?
POPPY: Err nothing. Look, we should go.
ASH: What?
POPPY: We don’t want them to think we would.
DAVID: Would what?
POPPY: (To ASH.) Come on!
Back in modern day.
POPPY: I was one of the innocent ones. People would say stuff like that and I’d have no idea what they meant.
SEREN: To be fair, you’re still a bit like that.
POPPY: Oi.
ASH: I didn’t want to know.
POPPY: I just went along with it so I didn’t look stupid.
SEREN: Well that worked.
MADDIE: I didn’t know either.
SALLY: Nor me.
DAVID: What? You were the one who started it.
MADDIE: I’d heard my mum say it about Phillip Schofield.
ASH: Wow.
POPPY: It was around then that things started to get complicated.
ASH: Yep.
DAVID: All of a sudden it was like a wall got built up. Boys on one side.
POPPY: Girls on the other.
DAVID: And we couldn’t talk to each other
POPPY: Or listen to each other any more.
ASH: And if you didn’t quite fit on one side or the other you were stuck with no place to be.
DAVID: If you’re a boy, you’re supposed to be into football
POPPY: And if you’re a girl you’re supposed to be into make up
ROB: And computer games
POPPY: And fashion
DAVID: And music
POPPY: And Snapchat
MIKE: And porn.
POPPY: What? That’s disgusting. At 11?
MIKE: Yeah, so what?