Touched

8pm Thursday - One Night Only

Britain didn’t collapse overnight… It slowly came apart. Jobs disappeared, trust eroded, and people stopped looking each other in the eye.

Then the Urban Regeneration Programme arrived. Not a government. Not a revolution. Just a system that slipped quietly into people’s lives and called itself order. Some welcome it. Some fear it. Most are simply trying to survive it.

K.C. has a past no one cares to understand, so they label her unstable. Dangerous. “Touched.” Yet she still sees things worth holding onto - things others gave up on long ago.

Thomas stopped feeling years back. Grief hollowed him out, leaving him to move through life unnoticed; until K.C. notices him.

Jessica, his daughter, is sharp and ambitious. To her, emotions are a luxury she can’t afford.

Mason believes in the Programme. Rules are safe. Rules keep the dark away.

Marly says she wants a new life, but what she really wants is to feel something real before she goes numb for good.

In a world designed to keep everyone apart, they find something rare; connection. Not quite love. Not quite friendship. More like the quiet ache of being altered by another person.

The Programme claims it can fix society. But to fix something, you often have to strip it down; remove the messy, human parts first: fear, pain, hope, longing. The need for one another. And if we lose those things, what’s left of us?

Touched is about people who should have stayed strangers but didn’t, and the cost of feeling in a world that tells you not to.

Original Script by Danny Strike. Adapted and rewritten by Beth Scott-Hewlett. Touched was inspired by a short play by Laura Quigley. 

About the Company

At Pilot's Thumb, we want to connect deeply with our audience, and hope that our shows leave a lasting impression.

Forming in 2009, Cassie, Beth, and Danny joined forces to pursue authentic storytelling with compelling narratives, empathetic characters, and pithy humour. They have kept their fingers firmly on the pulse of modern theatre, evolving their practise with experimental ideas and daring to tell stories that often get overlooked.

Following the success of their show Our Secret's Safe (an ensemble piece focusing on the lives of modern-day sex workers) the company has expanded significantly in recent years and now includes a variety of performers from across the South West.

All tickets include a £1 admin charge

Approx running time 2 hour 5 mins (incl. 15 min interval)

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