Collar Bone premiered in October 2025 as part of the Lambeth Fringe Festival and starred Anna Pritchard-Howarth, Will Pattle, and Lucie Ailsa. This bold and unflinching play explores the quiet unravelling of a young woman caught in a cycle of coercion, confusion, and emotional dependency. Told in fragments, the story follows Nora as she navigates an intense relationship, managing the psychological damage of abuse and what it leaves behind. Intimate, darkly humorous, and deeply human, Collar Bone examines the complicated space between love and harm.

"I think that Collar Bone is a very urgent story to tell right now because the world is so chaotic and Collar Bone (follows) Nora through this very chaotic time period… she doesn’t really know anything about life or love but she believes she does. She learns that she actually doesn’t have the power in love that she thought she did”

ANNA PRITCHARD-HOWARTH

Photographs by Carly Morgan 2025

“I want to be challenged, I want to be confronted with something that I haven’t been confronted with before… If you’re going into that truth, especially with subject matter like this, it’s got to make you uncomfortable… and this play does that very well”

WILL PATTLE

“I hope Collar Bone will influence audiences… to remember that things look one way on the surface and may be very different deep down… and to re-examine notions of romance that are fed to us that can be damaging”

LUCIE AILSA