All the Little Lights

‘I know you want what everyone else wants. A family. A home. But you’ll never have it. Cos of what’s inside you.’

Joanne and Lisa were like sisters. Then Lisa left. Now they’re back together for one last birthday party by the railway tracks. But can they salvage their friendship, or will ghosts of the past haunt them forever?

Poignant, moving and darkly funny, All the Little Lights is the searing story of young girls slipping through the cracks in society, desperately searching for friendship, family and themselves. In a world where nobody wants you, what would you do to survive?

Jane Upton's All the Little Lights was joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, and was nominated for Best Play at the 2017 Writers’ Guild Awards. Produced by Fifth Word, and written with support from charity Safe & Sound, the play toured the UK in 2017, following a successful run in 2015.

'Terrifically realistic and darkly funny... truly extraordinary and moving theatre'— Nottingham Post

'Couldn't be more timely or more important… laced with humour and full of characters to care about'— The Stage

'Deeply affecting work on an urgent subject… cultivates empathy without sanitising or over-determining the characters'— Exeunt Magazine

George Devine Award

Joint winner of George Devine Award 2016

“'Terrifically realistic and darkly funny... truly extraordinary and moving theatre'”

'Couldn't be more timely or more important… laced with humour and full of characters to care about'

'Deeply affecting work on an urgent subject… cultivates empathy without sanitising or over-determining the characters'

Jane Upton is a playwright whose work includes: (the) Woman (New Perspectives / Royal & Derngate tour, 2025); The Price of Home (Paines Plough & Derby Theatre); Finding Nana (New Perspectives, 2017 & 2018); All the Little Lights (George Devine Award, 2016; Fifth Word UK tour, 2017); Watching the Living, an adaptation of two Daphne du Maurier short stories (New Perspectives Theatre UK tour, 2014); Swimming (Menagerie Theatre Hotbed Festival, 2013/Soho/Edinburgh Festival, 2014); and Bones (Fifth Word, Edinburgh Festival/UK tour 2011–2012).She was the winner of the 2024 Adopt a Playwright Award run by Off West End Plays and Playwrights.Author photo by David Hammond

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