“You open the door into this club. And the noise and the smell and the heat hit you. It smothers you. Jumps all over you. Gets right in.”

It’s New Year’s Eve, 1997. Manchester. The DJ’s in full flow, and as your favourite indie songs blast out into the smoke-filled air of the club, the whole place feels electric.

Three girls are on the dancefloor. Polly and Angie are up for a big night. Jean is lost and alone. Change is in the air – New Labour, New Year, a new millennium. After decades of grey, this should be their time. But as darkness falls and midnight arrives, will they find their light?

Set to a live soundtrack of 90’s classics, How Soon is Now? is an indie musical about mates, music and magic – finding your place and finding yourself.

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“A gentle and tender reinvention of the Dylan Thomas classic... With a framing device scripted by Siân Owen, it’s set in a care home, where Sheen, visiting his father who has dementia, uses Thomas’s poetry to reach into his confused parent’s past, and reconnect with him in the present. It’s an ingenious stroke that lends a piquant urgency to Thomas’s beguiling lyricism.”

★★★★ The I Paper (on Under Milk Wood)

“Adam Quayle’s production is gently harrowing… A mighty miniature”

★★★★ The Times (on Plastic Figurines)

“A hymn for women everywhere... A warm cwtch of a play that had me wiping away tears of laughter and pride.”

★★★★★ British Theatre (on Owen's How To Be Brave)

“At times tragic, at others uplifting and insightful, and at all times thoroughly entertaining, How To Be Brave is a story about what makes us human and the times in life that really test how brave we are.”

★★★★★ Buzz Mag Wales (on How To Be Brave)

“Siân Owen has produced an engaging, fierce and, yes, brave play that puts women and working-class voices front and centre, and she has done it with a funny narrative that theatrically is a joy to watch.... Owen saves her real bravery for where it counts, and where you find it most: women. How To Be Brave is filled with fierce female voices... A funny, intelligent, honest piece of theatrical storytelling.”

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