Lucy Light and Tumble Tuck

Do you get to design your boobs? Is it like Build-A-Bear?

Meet Lucy and Jess; two best friends who obsess over boys, booze and their boobs. But when her mother dies of breast cancer, Lucy is forced to make a decision that will change her body forever.

A story that spans ten years, Lucy Light is a powerful duologue between two women that offers a nostalgic look at our relationship with our bodies, the hereditary nature of cancer, and the strength of female friendships.

My front crawl is a bit f***ing feminine

Tumble Tuck is a funny, brutal and honest one person piece about body image, mental health and relationships, that seeks to examine what it means to be successful in a world where medals matter.

In these two complementary new plays, Sarah Milton offers up two strong female led narratives with dynamic, complex characters.

This edition was published to coincide with the London production of Lucy Light at The Vault Festival 2019.


About the Author

Sarah Milton is a writer and performer based in Brighton. She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the BA (Hons) Acting course, on a full scholarship, graduating in 2012.

Sarah is alumni of Lyric Hammersmith (2013), Soho Theatre (2014/15), Hightide (2015) & RADA Advances in Script Writing 2015. Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play The Flower Show ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play The Night Tella was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival.

Sarah's one woman play Tumble Tuck was placed highly on the Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate 2015 Award list. It was presented by The Old Vic New Voices at Wilderness Festival in August 2016, and then the Soho Theatre in the Soho Rising season during October 2016. Back Here! Theatre produced Tumble Tuck for The Underbelly in Edinburgh 2017 where it received rave reviews. It transferred to The King's Head Theatre in April 2018 as the headline show of their Who Runs The World? festival and gained top reviews as well as an Off West End Award 2018 nomination for Best Performance Piece.

Sarah's play Fledglings received a reading at The Criterion Theatre in London's West End in November 2018. She was nominated for a 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Award in the Stage to Screen category for Tumble Tuck. At present, Sarah is 1 of 12 writers (out of 2800 applicants) on the 2019 Channel 4 Screenwriting programme led by Philip Shelley.