Act of God

He can talk about almost anything. Just not her. A young man from Wythenshawe has been sent on a ten week therapy via poetry course to work through something he would much rather leave alone. He doesn’t like therapy. He definitely doesn’t like poetry. But he would like everyone to stop asking him how he feels. Facing him, a therapist with one question: are you telling the truth or have you told this story so many times you now believe it? So they talk. They play chess. He makes jokes, changes the subject and, once a week, brings in a poem. The trouble is, the poems start getting harder to hide behind as he realises he’s “not f*cking Oscar Wilde” Act of God is the debut play from Manchester writer Jacob O’Connor, exploring masculinity, class and what happens when a man who can talk his way out of almost anything, suddenly can’t. Rooted in the North, it follows a working-class young man wh