£1 Thursdays

Newcastle, London, America. You can go anywhere, it's still the same old shit. People just getting by, in any way they know how. But I tell you what they don't have, they don't have a 1 Thursday!

17-year-old Jen and Stacey are best friends. Since forever.

Stacey always dreamed of being a dancer. And she's actually got the talent for it. Only her school career advisor hasn't even been to London, let alone heard of Urdang. Jen is smart. Like Oxbridge smart. But all 'smart' gives her is the ability to see that there's no use trying to change the story prewritten for her, growing up in an underfunded and forgotten Bradford in the 2010s.

They only have one place they can escape to... Club Ocean on a Thursday night. Freedom for Jen and Stacey.

A beautiful and hilarious coming-of-age story, Kat Rose-Martin's 1 Thursdays captures and celebrates the trials and tribulations of what it means to be young, Northern and working class, when for one Vodka-blurred second, you're allowed to forget everything and just dance.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Finborough Theatre in November 2023.


About the Author
Kat Rose-Martin is Bradford born and based, a writer/actor and inaugural winner of the Kay Mellor Fellowship. In 2020 she was part of BBC Writersroom Northern Voices. In 2021 she was selected for SKY COMEDY REP - a writer's scheme with Birmingham Rep Theatre and Sky. For screen, her TV drama The Crossleys made the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Drama Top 10 and is now in development in the US. She has original TV projects in development, at treatment stage, with Rollem, Dancing Ledge, Urban Myths, Warp and APC. She has a pilot commission with BBC3. Her script Ursula, developed with RED Productions, made The Brit List 2021. Kat was in the writers' room for Day 1s (Matthew Vaughn, Doug Ellin, Hera Pictures). She was also in the writers' room for series two of Paul Abbott's Wolfe for Sky Max. Her first television broadcast credit is the 2021 Christmas episode of Holby City. Theatre work includes: Aphra Behn (Shakespeare's Globe); Jane Hair (Bronte Society); Shit but Mine (Paines Plough); Children of War (Sheffield Theatres); Whooosh (Pilot Theatre); and development of ?1 Thursdays (Stockroom, formerly Out of Joint); Pick N Mix (Freedom Studios) and Cheap as Chips (Leeds Playhouse).