Writers’ Room: A. SMALL BOAT, B. SYCAMORE, C. LEMONS, D. A GOVERNMENT BOOKLET
Part of the Writers' Room Festival.
Written by Angela Terence.
“I’m not so sure that the best place for a tree is always determined by where it first roots. Where it begins. Where the seed ended up being put. The root needs to be where it can survive.”
The sycamore trees are no longer an invasive species: they’ve been here so long they’re classed as native.
Angela Terence’s A. Small boat, B. Sycamore, C. Lemons, D. A Government Booklet follows two 12-year-old friends in Folkestone, whose reality is turned upside down when a stranger arrives. They must reckon with the question: who – or what – makes a native?
A. Small boat, B. Sycamore, C. Lemons, D. A Government Booklet was developed as part of the Marlowe Theatre Writers’ Room Advanced Playwriting course.
Contains themes on violence and death.
Angela Terence bio
Angela Terence is a South London-born actor and writer, now proudly embracing her status as a DFL based in Folkestone. She trained at The BRIT School and RWCMD. Her writing work includes Sycamore, developed with Leo Butler at the Marlowe Theatre Writers’ Room (2023-25), and the 2024 Marlowe Writers’ Room Team Play. Other writing credits include Mysterious Girl (Rehearsed reading, Forest Forge, 2021), #Belgium (Keep On Writing Monologue Festival, 2020), and selection for The Kiln’s Artists in Development programme (2020). Angela began playwriting with the Royal Court Spring Group (2019) and currently writes for The BRIT School’s BRIT Kids.