Gentlemen

Matt Parvin’s blistering new drama explores the changing nature of masculinity through the rivalry and conflict of two undergraduates at a top university.

＂You’ve got to throw yourself in, yeah? Do you see? Have to throw yourself right in, whatever that entails.＂

Freshers’ term. Greg has taken to university life like a duck to water. Kasper is struggling to fit in.

Summoned to a mediation session with Kasper and the college welfare officer to discuss an accusation of plagiarism, Greg deftly argues his way out of trouble. But when the allegations evolve into something altogether more damaging, how long can Greg remain untouchable?

Gentlemenexamines what happens when culture turns toxic, and how a fear of not fitting in risks everyone losing out.

Matt is a playwright and screenwriter. He trained as part of the theatre writer’s programme in 2015. His theatre credits include: The Noble Nine, Two Roads (Vault festival), Jam (Finborough), Cousins (Soho Theatre) Alice in Wonderland (Arcola) . he was the recipient of the Oxford New Writing Festival 2013 Best Script Prize, shortlisted for the Marlowe Society’s Other Prize 2018 and was longlisted twice for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize