A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.
Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't
upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain
and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never
friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.
So it's an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the
Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense,
in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he
comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers,
sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons
and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.
Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the
Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and
was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.