2012 By Josh Overton This play was commissioned as part of TEN and first performed in March 2019 by 55 members of Hull Truck Theatre’s Young Company. TEN featured 10 ten-minute plays, each based on a year in the decade since Hull Truck Theatre moved in to its Ferensway home. This play was inspired by the 2012 phenomenon in which a small number of people across the planet believed 2012 would be the end of the world. Plot This play imagines a fictional riot in Hull in 2011, offers insight into the many reasons that young people may feel disenfranchised and why some felt the need to lash out. Notes: Recommended for 12+. This play contains mild bad language and discussions of mortality. This play’s characters are either Numbers or Letters and is not naturalistic. (Which means not like real life.) The playwright has decided to leave the interpretation of meaning to the cast and audience. If you see a Number or Letter in bold on the left, then the dialogue on the right should be spoken by that character. Text in [brackets] or italics describes what the audience sees or hears on stage that
isn’t dialogue. About the playwright: Josh Overton is a playwright, poet and bartender in that order. Working with companies up and down the country from his home in Hull he has created work ranging from the dark, violent and political to goofy family friendly nonsense. His latest work includes Dungeons and Dragons: An unofficial adventure (2019) a choose your own adventure family show and Thank You for Doing Nothing (2020) a comedy musical about the spin doctors convincing us to destroy the planet.