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You've got like super powers. Even tonight. When we kissed, you kissed my missing tooth. The gap. And it stopped hurting. When Kayleen and Doug meet in the nurse's office of their elementary school aged 8, she can't stop being sick and he's pedalled his bike off the roof. Over the course of the next 30 years an intensely unusual love story develops that is as delicate and raw as its protagonists. Passionate, infuriating heart-warming and heartbreaking; their own destructiveness continues to force them apart, only to be drawn together again. And again. The European Premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph's hilarious and dark tale, racing back and forth in time through the lives of two unique characters and the twisted relationship that defines them, Gruesome Playground Injuries is a fiercely honest story of modern America, and the first time that this exceptional new talent has been presented in the UK.

Cast/Performers

Mariah Gale (Kayleen), Felix Scott (Doug)

Creatives/Company

Author: Rajiv Joseph
Producer: Paul Jellis (in association with the National Theatre Studio and the Gate Theatre)
Company: The Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Theatre Directors
Director: Justin Audibert
Design: Lily Arnold
Lighting: Andy Purves
Sound: Isobel Waller-Bridge