Nick Payne
No it was ordinary, it was all ordinary, the whole morning was ordinary. We had breakfast and we said goodbye.
A teenage boy goes missing. Time fractures. His mother will never give up hope.
Nick Payne’s startling portrait of faith, grief and family opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2025.
Nick Payne’s plays include If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Bush Theatre and Roundabout Theatre Company, New York), Wanderlust (Royal Court Theatre), Sophocles’ Electra (Gate Theatre), One Day When We Were Young (Paines Plough/Sheffield Theatres and Shoreditch Town Hall), ...