Luke Barnes’ new play Lost Boys provides a humorous and heartfelt look into the lives of the youth of one northern new town, where the weight of identity, place, and masculinity threaten everything they’ve ever known.

Previously developed through workshops in Skelmersdale at Hope Theatre in 2018, the production is written by award-winning playwright and NYT alumnus Luke Barnes (All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Bottleneck) and is directed by Zoe Lafferty (The Host, Queens of Syria). The production will run at the Unity Theatre from 4th-11th September followed by a tour of community venues around Merseyside.

Luke Barnes, writer of Lost Boys, said “I think it’s the most important conversation we should be having as young people making art and I think Liverpool is the place to do it. I think Liverpool’s mentality, its social values and its joy and its fun is the ideal place to be having it in this form. I’m really proud to be doing it.”

Luke Barnes is a writer and director for stage and screen. His plays include No One Will Tell Me When To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre); All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Paines Plough Roundabout/Latitude/ Site Specific, Hull), The Jumper Factory (Young Vic/Birmingham Rep/HMP Wandsworth), The Men in Blue Project (Young Vic/Latitude), Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck), Weekend Rockstars (Battersea Arts Centre/Hull Truck/U.K. tour) and Bottleneck (Soho Theatre/U.K. Tour). His screen highlights include Channel 4’s Minted in Manchester.

Zoe Lafferty was named one of Vogue’s Major Players of British Theatre and Vanity Fair’s 14 British Theatre Talents Ready to Break Out.

Tickets for Lost Boys are available to purchase now from the Unity Theatre Box office. Lost Boys runs at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre from September 4th to 11th, then at community venues in Liverpool until September 21st.