Join Rey, Elle, Shan and Funmi who have finally convinced their parents to let them hold their very first sleepova. Armed with sugary snacks, school gossip, and secret questions they can only ask each other, their sleepovas become pretty much a sacred space for them.

As each year tugs them further into adulthood and life doesn t pan out quite as they imagined, they struggle to hold on to a friendship that they swore would last a lifetime. A frank, funny and moving coming-of-age story,

Contains strong language and references to mental and physical illness.

This play encourages collabotation. The ethnicities described are open for you to adapt. There is some degree of flexibility in tweaking details or slang to fit specific cultures.

Matilda Feyi?ay? Ibini is an award-winning bionic playwright and screenwriter of Nigerian heritage from London. Matilda s debut play Muscovado won the Alfred Fagon Audience Award in 2015. Matilda s next play Little Miss Burden premiered at the Bunker Theatre in 2019, was a finalist for Best New Play at the Off West End awards and won a Popcorn Finalist Award in 2020.

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