Limelight Festival: The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble

Performance
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  • Date and time: Sunday 1 June 2025, 2pm to 3.30pm
  • Location: Studio Theatre TFTV/011, School of Arts and Creative Technologies East, Campus East, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to staff, students, the public
  • Admission: £5, £8, booking required

Event details

Limelight Festival Presents: The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble.

It's the year 2003 and Dani, a 17-year-old girl, finds herself infatuated with online chatrooms. She finds Lewis, a lonely 22-year-old, and forms a "tricky" sexual relationship with him. At the same time, she pretends to be an 11-year-old boy to convicted paedophile Tim, eventually meeting him and forming a friendship. 

What initially appears to be a play about online chatrooms unfolds into an exploration of loneliness, control, identity, and vulnerability, as Dani’s complex relationships with Lewis, Tim, and her mother, Jan, are revealed.

Suggested age guidance: 16+

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For more information about The Sugar Sydrome and other festival events, visit the Limelight Festival website!

This amateur production of The Sugar Syndrome is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible

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