TENNER BAG

Tenner Bag is a brutal and darkly funny new play about family, violence, and survival in a town on the brink. Set in post-riot Teesside, it follows the fallout of a fractured family forced back together after a funeral. Old resentments resurface, loyalties buckle, and buried histories refuse to stay quiet. There are no clean exits — only what you’re willing to carry.

 

“Tenner Bag is about the collision between self and environment — how a place shapes you, traps you, and lives inside you long after you’ve left. It’s both a personal reckoning and a wider one — a microcosm of a system that fails people, then blames them for surviving it.” — Francesca Bolam, Writer

 

Written by Francesca Bolam and directed by Finella Waddilove, Tenner Bag is working-class theatre that doesn’t pull punches. With biting dialogue, claustrophobic tension, and flashes of stark tenderness, it asks what it really costs to leave — and what’s left when you stay.

 

Developed between London and New York, this is the UK debut from a cross-Atlantic team bringing bruising honesty and lived-in grit to the Camden Fringe.

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Running time:​ Approximately 60 minutes

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LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED.

UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. 

No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. 
Refunds and exchanges are not available.