Debris Stevenson – författare

Accessible Edition using Helvetica Neue LT Std (light, bold) font with black ink on cream paper. In real life, her actual brother is a genius. Title aside, everything in this show is fiction – but that doesn’t meanit isn’t true.Poetry, grime and movement unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find our own ways to fly.Daisy and Luke are twins navigating life in a high-rise council estate, where ambition and self-doubt collide.Both twins have labels thrust upon them: Daisy the “idiot” and Luke the “genius”. But will their bond and shared dream of flying launch them up together or crash them apart?This edition was published to coincide with the Theatre Centre, Sheffield Theatres and National Youth Theatre co-production in January 2026.

A coming of age story inspired by Dizzee Rascal’s seminal album.In a strict Mormon household somewhere in the seam between East London and Essex, a girl is given Dizzee Rascal’s ground-breaking grime album Boy in da Corner by her best friend SS Vyper.Precisely 57 minutes and 21 seconds later, her life begins to change – from feeling muted by dyslexia to spitting the power of her words; from being conflicted about her sexuality to finding the freedom to explore; from feeling alone to being given the greatest gift by her closest friend.In this semi-autobiographical piece, step into a technicolour world where music, dance and spoken word collide, and discover how grime allowed Debris Stevenson to redefine herself.