Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban; playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by. Sometimes their mum Maggie visits, usually with empty pockets and empty promises. Then Jenny shows up…
"'To say that Yen is absorbing would be an understatement... what's most remarkable about Anna Jordan's writing is the taut mixture of incipient violence and utter, heart-wrenching tenderness'"
Exeunt Magazine
"'[A] terrifying, witty, and compassionate study of the awful penalties of growing up alone and without boundaries'"
Independent
"'A savage study of two teenage boys abandoned by society… leaves a lump in the throat that won't go down'"
