Slippery & Is This Us Fading Out Slippery & Is This Us Fading Out
NHB Modern Plays

Slippery & Is This Us Fading Out

Two Plays

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    • Expected 26 Mar 2026
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Publisher Description

Two plays from a 'rising-star playwright' (Time Out), author of I F**ked You in My Spaceship.

Slippery is a hilarious and heartfelt play about ghosts, sex, and spaghetti. Winner of Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award, it is premiered at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, in 2026.

'Gave it to me when he died. Thought it was a bit odd. F**k flowers. Have an espresso machine.'

2AM. A London flat. Jude and Kyle return from A&E. One has slipped, but they're both falling. A decade after their messy breakup, old wounds reopen as their tender reunion unravels into something more dangerous.

Is This Us Fading Out is a play about a couple trapped in a post-breakup limbo, looking at their relationship after their 'relationship' has ended.

'Should I go now?
Or have tonight
then go tomorrow and not come back?'

Samuel and Anthony ended it. Now what? What does it mean to break-up and not break-away? 

The play premiered as part of a digital showcase in 2020, produced by Swings&Roundabouts. It was subsequently performed at Watford Palace Theatre in 2021.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
AVAILABLE
2026
26 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
128
Pages
PUBLISHER
Nick Hern Books
SELLER
Faber and Faber
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