Bindweed

<p>Judges' Award, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting - 2022</p><p>Four men convicted of domestic abuse offences meet each week to undergo a perpetrator program. But as Jen, the new group facilitator, starts to make progress with the men inside the room, life outside begins to buckle.</p><p>A shattering and darkly funny play about responsibility and rehabilitation, Martha Loader's <em>Bindweed</em> looks at what can be done to tackle abuse at its root.</p><p>The play was the winner of the Judges' Award at the 2022 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and was first performed at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, in 2024, in a co-production with HighTide and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.</p>