Book description
Come on troops. Let's take check: Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but
still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full night's sleep but
otherwise all in order... Stay here. Don't answer the door. I'll go
out and get some proper food. In a new flat, three children play hide
and seek. Eliot wears a crown, little Finn, King of the Wild Thing's,
draws on the walls. Maggie climbs them. Hiding from the world, needing
to be found, their one shared focus a mobile phone. Will it ring? Who
will call? And what are they waiting for? Tusk Tusk is a tale of
family loyalty as an uncertain future circles. Polly Stenham's second
play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in March 2009.
