Tusk Tusk – Polly Stenham

Come on troops. Let“s take check: Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full night“s sleep but otherwise all in order… Stay here. Don“t answer the door. I“ll go out and get some proper food.In a new flat, three children play hide and seek. Eliot wears a crown, little Finn, King of the Wild Thing“s, draws on the walls. Maggie climbs them. Hiding from the world, needing to be found, their one shared focus a mobile phone. Will it ring? Who will call? And what are they waiting for?Tusk Tusk is a tale of family loyalty as an uncertain future circles. Polly Stenham“s second play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in March 2009.