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Award-winning playwright
Bola Agbaje follows the acclaimed Detaining Justice with her latest piece Off the Endz; yet another critique of contemporary British society. David (
Ashley Walters of
So Solid Crew, Hustle and Small Island fame) is fresh out of prison – again - and calls on pretty old flame Sharon (
Lorraine Burroughs) and childhood friend Kojo (
Daniel Francis) - now themselves an item - for help.
Sharon is a nurse and Kojo works a well paid 9-5. They seem to be living the dream like any other would-be middle class young couple; baby on the way, multiple credit cards, expensive car, an eye on the property market... and waist-deep in debt. Sharon, in a naive attempt to set David on the straight and narrow suggests he comes to live with her and Kojo until he gets back on his feet.
However David sees his two old friends’ relatively respectable existence as too slow and arduous a journey to achieve what he ultimately wants out of life - to get rich as quickly as possible. Sharon gets more and more exasperated with David’s immature ways and recidivism. However Kojo’s protests against his friend’s behaviour become more half-hearted as financial pressure mounts up, temptation comes a-knocking and David’s negative influence slowly but surely starts to take hold.
