Fourteen

By Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti.

1983. Election fever hits Watford. Brainbox Tina loves The Jam and Keats and Cassiobury Park. She's planning to wipe the floor with the Lower Sixth girls in the school debate: "This house believes an Oxo cube has a greater function than Princess Diana." But her parents are always shouting, her mum says she's developing too quickly, and her best friend Sharon has a dark secret. Thirty years later, Tina's life hasn't turned out quite how it was supposed to...

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti grew up in Watford. She has written extensively for stage, screen and radio

Watford Palace Theatre commissioned ‘Fourteen’ after Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti wrote a short play for ‘Come To Where I’m From’ in 2010, co-produced by Watford Palace Theatre and Paines Plough