Squidge

"Squidge is a sensitive and challenging story about loss and love. (...) Tiggy Bayley is an emerging talent to watch closely.” - Deborah Frances-White

Daisy Wright is in her early twenties, broke, furious and freshly bereaved. Taking a stopgap job as a one-to-one support assistant in an inner-city primary school, she’s assigned to Paddy Connors: a sharp, chaotic Irish Traveller boy with a talent for disruption and a grief he can’t name. As Daisy ricochets between the staffroom, the toilets and her sofa, an unlikely friendship begins to crack open her numbness.

Brutally funny and quietly devastating, Tiggy Bayley’s play holds a mirror to poverty, education and loss—and asks what it means to choose love anyway.

Squidge is part of the Traverse's £1 Ticket Project.

Image: Amy Lauffer

SHORTLISTED –Popcorn Award 2024

★★★★★ 'Sheer brilliance.' - The Reviews Hub

★★★★★ 'A powerful and heartfelt solo dark comedy play navigating the uncharted paths we all take while tackling our feelings of grief.' - Elaine Chapman

★★★★ 'well-observed, smartly written, very funny one woman show.' - The Wee Review

★★★★ 'Bayley has created a beautiful show that will simultaneously tickle your funny bone and pull on your heartstrings.' - Broadway Baby

★★★★ 'Comedic timing is everything, and Squidge gets it spot on with these moments of dark humour making the hard-hitting scenes feel so gritty and raw' - The List

★★★★ 'an absorbing one woman show' - North West End

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