Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses arrives at Theatre Royal Brighton

Following their critically acclaimed-production of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Pilot Theatre now premiere Sabrina Mahfouz’s new adaptation of Blackman’s young adult novel of first love in a dangerous fictional dystopia – Noughts & Crosses The production will be at Theatre Royal Brighton from March 19-23.

Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and Crosses there are racial and social divides. A segregated society teeters on a volatile knife edge.

Told from the perspectives of the two teenagers, Noughts & Crosses is a captivating love story set in a volatile, racially-segregated society and explores the themes of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.

Sabrina Mahfouz’s new adaptation is based on Malorie Blackman’s fir