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‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme


Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return

Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed an abundance of knife violence that has stayed with him to this day.

“Me and my friends had knives pulled on us on numerous occasions. We once saw someone being chased with a machete at the back of the field by our school. In drama class, I remember a boy went into his bag to get his notebook out and a massive knife fell out. A boy in my brother’s year was stabbed over 10 times on a night out.”

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jul/08/knife-crime-play-sam-edmunds-chaos-that-has-been

Author : Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Publish date : 2025-07-08 06:00:00

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