Bad Lads

11 Nov 2025 - 12 Nov 2025 View Venues, Dates & Times

Coventry-originated theatre company Graeae - the ensemble behind this brand-new play by Mike Kenny - put features such as signing, captioning and audio description at the heart of their productions.
“Every Graeae show is different,” says the company’s CEO & artistic director, Jenny Sealey. “We never add access on. It comes from looking at the script, who the characters are, what we’re trying to say, and then thinking about what access brings to that.”
Bad Lads tells the disturbing true story of the boys held at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre in County Durham in the 1980s. Although the facility was ‘sold’ to the public as being an institution via which a ‘short, sharp shock’ would be delivered to wayward youths, in reality something far darker was happening within its walls...   

Post show discussion: Tuesday 11 November  

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