A play that won its writer the title of Most Promising Playwright in last year’s Off West End Awards is receiving its regional premiere at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Jess and Joe Forever is a funny, surprising and poignant play about teenage friendship, growing up and the frictions that still exist between urban and rural communities. Jess is a girl from a big city who is holidaying in Joe’s seaside town. They are both outsiders who gradually, over several summers, form a friendship that changes both of them forever.

It’s a coming-of-age tale full of soil, secrets and scotch eggs.