A 40 minute extract of Cigarettes & Alcohol will be featured in the Criterion New Writing Showcase at the Criterion Theatre on the West End on 24 Oct 2025.

It’s festival season, 2016. Five eighteen year olds from run down Warrington are restless for… Unity? Togetherness? Something like that. With adulthood fast approaching, the mates do their best to hold onto each other and what’s left onto their teenage years.

Cigarettes & Alcohol is a pulsating new play about escapism, nostalgia and finding ecstasy in times of crisis.

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