Charlie Josephine’s Birds and Bees announces 2023 UK tour

Charlie Josephine’s Birds and Bees is to tour the UK in 2023.

A searing exploration into sex positivity, online safety and intersectionality, Birds and Bees is an enthralling play by renowned writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, Shakespeare’s Globe).

Theatre Centre will present the show on tour next spring, opening at Sheffield Theatres from 25 January before visiting Scarborough and Plymouth.

One click and it’s gone too far, far too fast. As explicit photos of the school’s ‘it’ couple go viral, real life consequences of online life start to spread – and so do everyone’s opinions.

Leilah can’t help but feel her Instagram is more of a burden than ‘living her best life’. Billy is queer and proud but feels unseen by the education system; they’ve had enough of feeling invisible. Aarron is still in the early stages of learning how to be a man online and it’s starting to become toxic. And Maisy, well Maisy’s not that into sex, thank you very much.

Birds and Bees follows the narrative of four school peers as they recognise their differences and engage their own unique power and potential to spark change.

Director Rob Watt said: “We are super excited to be working with Sheffield Theatres to make Birds and Bees; a show that has been created with young people across the UK. With a magical combination of Charlie Josephine’s rhythmical words, a top-notch creative team and four awesome actors we are thrilled to share this stunning show with schools and theatres across the nation.

“The core of this show digs into how young people have complicated conversations. Conversations around gender, identity, sexuality, power and consent. It asks the question ‘If we can learn to have complex conversations, then how would the world change for the better? ”

For more information, full tour dates and tickets, visit theatre-centre.co.uk