Every Wednesday evening, Jimmy calls Kitty. For precisely nine minutes. At £1.20 a minute.

Jimmy is thirty-four, lives with his mum and works at Newport’s only drive-through doughnut restaurant. Kitty is an adult chatline operator, living in the granny flat of a topiary enthusiast. Things were looking up for Jimmy, but then he loses his job and he begins to disappear, starting with his hands.

Will this unlikely duo succeed in turning each other’s world upside down?

HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT won a Judges Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015. The play premiered in 2017 at the Royal Exchange Theatre in a co-production with Sherman Theatre and Theatre by the Lake.

This play & other Bruntwood Prize-winners are available to buy from our publishing partner Nick Hern Books.