- 64 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Germ Free Adolescent
About this book
Ashley is sixteen. She's lived in Medway for fifteen years and six months. She has 2, 354 leaflets on sexual health. She knows exactly how many she has, because she's counted them 1, 582 times…
At 7.48 p.m. tonight, she will have been going out with Ollie for exactly three months, which he thinks means it's time to take their relationship to the next level; especially given her position as their school's resident expert on sexual health. But what if counting leaflets can't protect Ashley from getting hurt when she decides to take her biggest risk yet?
Natalie Mitchell's play Germ Free Adolescent is a fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway? It received its first full production at The Bunker, London, in October 2019, having previously toured Kent where the play was researched and developed with young people, youth workers and mental-health services.
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ASHLEY | Tracey has thrush. At least, I’m pretty sure she has. She wants me to have a look but she knows I won’t so I don’t know why she asks. | |
T is for Thrush. | ||
Vaginal thrush is a yeast infection that is usually caused by a type of fungus that lives naturally in the vagina. | ||
Typical symptoms include itching and soreness, pain during sex (Trace reckons it killed when she shagged Chris Chambers, and he’s not that big apparently) and cottage-cheese discharge. | ||
So it seems like a textbook case. Thrush. | ||
She’s not happy when I tell her she can’t have sex till it clears up. It’s not an STI, but you can still… | ||
You can still pass it on if you… | ||
You can pass it on. | ||
Do I need to… | ||
Maybe I should… | ||
No. No. | ||
I write down the name of the medication she needs (Caneston Combi is the one everyone on the forum recommends) and take three quid off her. | ||
Trace is always reluctant to pay, cos this surgery was kind of her idea, but she gets a ten-per-cent cut of the tak... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Acknowledgements
- Characters
- Germ Free Adolescent
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information