National Theatre Connections: Britney's Lock

Performed by Taunton Brewhouse Youth Theatre as part of National Theatre Connections.

When Ruby acquires a lock of Britney Spears’ hair as a relic to help her stay calm during her GCSE mocks, her friends dismiss it, but one by one they feel its power and want a piece of it, until it is destroyed. This funny play about how we cope in stressful situations, explores the power of belief and friendship.

Alexandra Wood is a playwright from London. Her plays include The Tyler Sisters and The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre); Never Vera Blue (Futures Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); The Initiate and The Human Ear (Paines Plough); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); a translation of Manfred Karge’s Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Plymouth Drum); Unbroken (Gate); and The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court).

Adaptations include Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre); Kavita Puri’s Silence (co-writer, Donmar/Tara Theatre); and Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (Young Vic). Audio plays include Descent (Audible Originals) and Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). She is a past winner of the George Devine Award and has been playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough. Her plays are published by Nick Hern Books.