BY CHRISTOPHER YORK

Winner of the Holden Street Theatres’ Edinburgh Fringe Award 2018, Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Weekly Award and The Sunday Mail’s Best Female Solo Show 2019, Build a Rocket is a powerful and uplifting one-woman show about triumph over adversity.

Yasmin is a bright 16-year-old from a small seaside town. In an instant, her life is turned upside down when she becomes pregnant with her son, Jack. Suddenly her Scarborough isn’t sandcastles, arcades, and donkey rides. Abandoned by both the father of her child and her alcoholic mother, Yasmin faces one of life’s great challenges completely alone – it’s just Yasmin and Jack against the world. But can the thing which threatens to ruin her life actually be the thing which saves her?

“Best new British play of the year” The Stage

★★★★ “a breathless, swaggering hour of female endurance and defiance” The Telegraph

★★★★ “a powerful one-woman show and a tour-de-force from Serena Manteghi whose performance blazes off the stage” Yorkshire Post

★★★★ “delivered with pedal-to-the-metal conviction” The Scotsman

★★★★ “told with ferocious energy and raw emotion…Manteghi is an absolute powerhouse” InDaily

10/10 “Manteghi brings a bold, courageous energy to this role, displaying an astonishing range of emotions and characters” The Adelaide Show Podcast

Written by Christopher York
Yasmin played by Serena Manteghi
Originally directed by Paul Robinson and produced by Stephen Joseph Theatre and Tara Finney Productions