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Just Something Different LTD presents

Dear Young Monster

Created by Pete MacHale
Directed by Sammy J Glover
Tue 5 – Sat 16 Aug 25 65 minutes
Pete MacHale’s debut show - pulling apart fear, otherness, and what it means to embrace being the monster that the world keeps telling you that you are.
Best Studio Production
2024 Nominee: WhatsOnStage

A young trans man, struggling at the start of his medical transition, drops out of university and retreats to his quiet hometown. His friends are gone. The neighbours are watching. His body is changing faster than he can make sense of it… until a midnight screening of Frankenstein offers him a strange kind of salvation.

Staring into the monster’s sad, stitched-together eyes, something finally clicks: for the first time, he feels seen.

Dear Young Monster is a vivid, witty and hopeful exploration of what it means to become yourself in a world that’s growing ever more hostile. A universal coming-of-age story pulsing with teenage rage and euphoria, it’s a show for anyone who’s ever tried to figure out who they are – and dared to do it out loud.

BSL Interpreted Performance: Fri 15 Aug

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Reviews

'A truly important piece of theatre.'
Bristol 24/7
'Deserves to be seen by the widest audience possible.'
StageTalk