One Jewish Boy

Jesse is a Jewish boy from North London, Alex is a mixed-race girl from Peckham. They are utterly and completely in love, but Jesse was attacked on Hampstead Heath and he’s never been able to shake it off… and now he’s paranoid and frightened and it’s messing up his relationship with Alex, his job, his child and his life…

This is a bittersweet tale of inherited trauma, the end of youth and staying in love.

One Jewish Boy focuses on the inheritances that haunt us. Asking – could the fear of hatred be worse than hate itself?

With antisemitism and racism rife in political parties and hate-crime at unprecedented levels, Stephen Laughton explores one young family’s struggle against fear, prejudice and identity.

Critically-acclaimed, award-winning writer Stephen Laughton (JB Priestly Award for Writers of Promise 2019 winner, and current Writer in Residence for the Astrophysics Department at the American Museum of Natural History) has written One Jewish Boy as an urgent response to overt antisemitism.

Following its controversial and sold-out run at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, One Jewish Boy is directed by Sarah Meadows and starring Asha Reid and Robert Neumark-Jones. A Greenwich Theatre, Scene Change Productions co-production in association with Norel Productions.