4 and the Night Tella

You definitely want to f*ck her but you don't want to know her. You certainly don't want to stay for breakfast. Sarah Milton's new one-woman play tells the story of one woman's immediate response to a sexual assault, fueled by a toxic friendship and crisis of identity. Two best friends are heading out for the night. Our protagonist, known as 'She', is hoping to win over her crush - Isaac the bartender, at their favourite joint. That night, her best friend Trixie decides to invite a group of men home that she fancies, promoting She as her sexy, obtainable friend, to help seal the deal. But when She wakes up the next day, confused, sore, lying next to a man she doesn't recognise, she is forced to re-evaluate everything she thinks she knows about her friendships, identity and sexuality. This edition was published to coincide with the premiere at Park Theatre's Come What May Festival 2022. Do you remember the club, Amanda? Do you remember the club? In addition to 4, this play text also includesMilton's short spoken word piece The Night Tella which explores guilt, friendship and a night that should have ended in the chip shop. In these two complementary new pieces, Sarah Milton offers powerful, female led narratives with strong, complex characters.

Sarah Milton is a writer and performer based in Brighton. She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the BA (Hons) Acting course, on a full scholarship, graduating in 2012. Sarah is alumni of Lyric Hammersmith (2013), Soho Theatre (2014/15), Hightide (2015) & RADA Advances in Script Writing 2015. Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play The Flower Show ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play The Night Tella was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival. Sarah's one woman play Tumble Tuck was placed highly on the Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate 2015 Award list. It was presented by The Old Vic New Voices at Wilderness Festival in August 2016, and then the Soho Theatre in the Soho Rising season during October 2016. Back Here! Theatre produced Tumble Tuck for The Underbelly in Edinburgh 2017 where it received rave reviews. It transferred to The King's Head Theatre in April 2018 as the headline show of their Who Runs The World? festival and gained top reviews as well as an Off West End Award 2018 nomination for Best Performance Piece. Sarah's play Fledglings received a reading at The Criterion Theatre in London's West End in November 2018. She was nominated for a 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Award in the Stage to Screen category for Tumble Tuck. At present, Sarah is 1 of 12 writers (out of 2800 applicants) on the 2019 Channel 4 Screenwriting programme led by Philip Shelley.