Dog Eat Dog

Written by Kellie Smith
Directed by Matthew Elliott

“If you perform well, then you’ll see it reflected in your pay packet”

Clara leaves school with few qualifications but manages to secure a job in a local meat factory. Clara lives with her Mum and her Granddad on a local housing estate where the gentleman callers are the kind that take away your white goods, because you haven’t kept up with pay day loan repayments. Liverpool writer Kellie Smith was commisioned by CE to create Dog Eat Dog with our Youth Theatre; it exposed the challenges faced by young people growing up in poverty and surrounded by inequality, through one young woman’s political awakening. Dog Eat Dog was performed by Collective Encounters Youth Theatre.

Dog Eat Dog toured in the North West on the following dates…
Friday 1st August, 7.30pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX

Monday 4th August, 7.30pm
Wirral Youth Theatre, 1 Pilgrim Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5EH

Tuesday 5th August, 7.30pm
Theatre Factory, The Cooke’s Studios, 104 Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furnace, Cumbria, LA14 5QR

Wednesday 6th August, 2pm
Action Transport Theatre, Whitby Hall, Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port, CH65 6QY

Thursday 7th August, 7.30pm
Z-arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA