Strugglers

When one of a group of youngsters with learning difficulties has an epileptic fit in the kitchen and burns herself, the rest come up with a way to help.

When one of a group of youngsters with learning difficulties has an epileptic fit in her mother's kitchen and burns herself, the rest come up with a way to help. The play is a story of how a class of eight strugglers win and lose and win again through friendship and determination.A witty energetic piece of young people's theatre When Wendy has an epileptic fit in the kitchen and burns herself, her friends in their last term at a special school come up with a way to help. They set themselves a goal and spend their last days struggling to reach it. Strugglers won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award in 1988 at the National Student Drama Festival.