Hi! My name is Noah, I am a (very broke) student at The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, and I have made a solo play called Brick, which me and my friends are taking to Edinburgh Fringe this summer!

Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to protest the government into giving more funding to the arts (yet!), and gluing myself to the Royal Mile is something i’d like to keep as a last resort, so we are turning to the people for help! This show has been in in development for two years, and I love it with all of my stressed out little heart, and we would love to be able to take it to the Fringe so people can finally see it and have a giggle or a cry (whichever they prefer).

ABOUT THE SHOW

James is stuck.

Literally - in a police holding cell. Arrested at a queer rights protest for throwing a brick at an officer, trying to impress an attractive artist, he narrates his descent to his unlikely - and unconscious - cellmate in this raw, urgent, emotionally powerful dark comedy about grief, identity and institutional failures.

Brick asks us to question the morality of the societal systems that we rely on: ‘What happens to those society has failed over and over?’, ‘What extremes can they be pushed to?’, and ‘How many Tina Turner lyrics can they remember in the meantime?’

It was shortlisted for the Homotopia Queer Writers Award 2025, who called it ‘surprising, incendiary and unsettling, written with a propulsive energy and sense of theatrical ambition’. Liverpool Everyman New Works called it ‘wryly and playfully funny, and desperately sad… effortlessly engaging, and has an exhilarating pace’

Brick is supported in development by Boondog Theatre Company and The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.