Faye and Mel have been together forever. Two kids, a mortgage and a diabetic hamster. A regular, unexceptional existence. They work hard, they get by, they do their best. So if it's true — if Faye's father really has left the factory to her — they'd deserve it, wouldn't they? The site could be worth a fortune — not for making scissors, but ripe for redevelopment. It could change everything. But first they need the paperwork.
Paper is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's trilogy of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors. The three plays were first performed simultaneously with the same cast moving between three theatres in Sheffield — the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Studio — as part of Sheffield Theatres' fiftieth birthday celebrations in 2022.
