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Synopsis

Blake and Reece are sixteen: two boys from two cities, Liverpool and Portsmouth. The tensions of North and South play out as the boys realise their backgrounds may not be so different after all. Blake is lumbered with a baby he never wanted. His dad, Gary, is struggling to cope as a single parent while teaching his son how to face the responsibilities of being a father. Reece has run away from home, hasn’t seen his father in years and is slipping into a criminal underworld from which there appears to be no way back. Two mates, one plan and a future where the straight and narrow is an empty road - and coincidentally inspired by the two cities that Boris Johnson, London’s new mayor, famously offended! Follow is a touching and gritty drama about fatherhood, friendship and growing up fast.

Our Review:

3 November 2008

Another day, another gritty urban drama. Liverpool low life: teenage wasters, teenage druggies, teenage parents… we’ve been this way a thousand times. The Finborough stage hosts a dingy living-room design that’s as familiar as the set-up, so we strap ourselves in for a brain-battering night of social hectoring. That’s what we’re conditioned to expect; which is why the real shock of Dameon Garnett’s Follow is just how entertaining it.

The author of the award-winning Break Away tells a cracking tale in this well-trodden landscape. Reece (Oliver Gilbert) is a shady youth who has fled from Portsmouth to Liverpool and befriended Blake (Adam Redmore), a loser with no prospects and a baby on his hands. Reece indulges in some shady business that brings danger to both boys, with a happy outcome far from certain despite the steadying influence of Blake’s widowed father, Gary (a sympathetic performance by Paul Regan)...

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