Transferring from a sell-out run at Hampstead's Downstairs theatre last year, Phil Davies' Firebird tackles the ghastly undercurrent of child sexual exploitation that blights so many of this country's towns and young people. Pitched in a fictional Northern town, the play is at its most touching in the exchanges between the deeply harmed and 14-year-old Tia (played by Callie Cooke), who has been placed in local author…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:06PM on February 22, 2016