Some Demon

People say lifes too short, its not. Its too bloody long. Theres too much time and too many ways to fill it, all those hours in all those days, all those choices you have to make.

Sams eighteen and her lifes about to start. Zoes forty-something and hers never did. They dont have much in common. Just a love of 80s new wave, and an illness that wants them dead.

Thrown together in an eating disorder unit, their most intimate secrets exposed, they form a complicated bond. But when another patient turns the ward into chaos, theyre forced to confront a difficult question: if an institution is the thing keeping you safe, how are you supposed to cope when you leave?

Authentic, witty and profoundly compassionate, Laura Waldrens play Some Demon won the Papatango New Writing Prize and the Clive Richards Foundation Writer in Residence Bursary, and was first produced by Papatango Theatre Company at the Arcola Theatre, London, and Bristol Old Vic in 2024.