A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.
Tia's mouthy attitude and confident swagger mask the vulnerability in a fourteen-year-old girl whose tough start in life draws her to AJ. Older, good-looking and charismatic, he shows her a kindness that she's never known. Kindness that comes with a price…
Phil Davies' debut play Firebird premiered at Hampstead Downstairs, London, in 2015, in a production directed by Edward Hall, before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End in 2016.
'Remarkably potent... what's remarkable about Davies's writing is how little it hectors and how lifelike it feels. It's angry, it's witty, it makes degradation vivid and infuriating'
— The Times
'Short, sharp, and appropriately nasty… Davies' writing also brims with a fierce energy'
— WhatsOnStage
'Blisteringly intense… unforgettable'
— The Stage
'A must-see… Davies perfectly captures the complexities of human relationships'
— Londonist
'Powerful and harrowing… [a] gripping and highly emotive drama'
— The Reviews Hub
About the Author :
Phil Davies is a playwright and screenwriter.
His debut play Firebird premiered at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in 2015 and subsequently transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End.
Other theatre work includes the short play How To Not Murder (Arcola Theatre); Up the Dale (Royal Exchange Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall for Paines Plough); Adjusted (Interplay Europe, Utrecht) and The Makings (ATG, dir. Sarah Dickinson).
For radio, he has written The Punjab (BBC Radio 4) and Girl X, a winner at the BBC's 2016 Alfred Bradley Bursary Awards.
He also works alongside Synergy Theatre Project developing scripts with inmates in prisons and Young Offenders Institutions.
Review :
'Remarkably potent... what's remarkable about Davies's writing is how little it hectors and how lifelike it feels. It's angry, it's witty, it makes degradation vivid and infuriating'
'Short, sharp, and appropriately nasty… Davies' writing also brims with a fierce energy'
'Blisteringly intense… unforgettable'
'A must-see… Davies perfectly captures the complexities of human relationships'
'Powerful and harrowing… [a] gripping and highly emotive drama'
