A Freaky Geese production of Growth by Luke Norris

Luke Norris's play Growth was first produced by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the

2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It is a painful comedy about growing up and manning up.

Tobes is young, free and having a ball off.

He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way – cramping his style and,

worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball

ache.

'Norris' script is very funny, throwing laugh-out-loud one-liners out at a rate of knots' WhatsOnStage

'Gripping and deeply moving from start to finish… brilliant, sensitive writing' British Theatre Guide

'Achingly funny and tender... of the hundreds of shows at the Fringe, few feel as necessary as this' Financial

Times

'Consolidates the career of a significant playwriting talent… Quite simply, this is everything you could want

from a play on such a difficult subject. It’s so straightforward and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny as to make it a popular hit, but with an unerring connection to its characters and their responses' Scotsman

'Growth has a beady wit and lots of snazzy one-liners… funny and truthful' Guardian