Writers’ Room: Contact
Part of the Writers' Room Festival.
Written by HJS.
“What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?”
“Nothing, you’ve told her twice already.”
HJS’s Contact is a new play about child contact and domestic violence that pulls no punches.
Contact was developed as part of the Marlowe Theatre Writers’ Room Advanced Playwriting course.
Contains themes on domestic voilence.
HJS bio
HJS is a graduate of Bretton Hall and Canterbury Christchurch University. Their working life to date includes working in secondary education as Director of Performing Arts, time as a foster carer, managing Learning Support in higher education and teaching in a SEMH school. HJS joined the Marlowe Writers’ Room under the guidance of Leo Butler in September 2023 and continued with the Advanced Writers’ group in September 2024. Contact is their first full length play to be read professionally.