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You're an agoraphobic drug dealer who suffers panic attacks. Not good for business. Enter a teenage boy with a dangerous ambition, a lapdancer who'll do anything for a hit and a hard man on a mission. Could the day get any darker on Sunbeam Terrace? Mark Catley was born in Leeds and grew up within sight of Beeston's Sunbeam Terrace. He was the first writer commissioned by the Playhouse as part of the BBC's New Writing scheme, Northern Exposure. This play contains strong language. Production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, from 27th March to 12th April.

When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster’s office it’s hardly love at first sight. More like “what you playing at you frigging psycho?” And when the two sixteen-year-olds find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it’s time for some serious thinking. “I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for breakfast. I’m not fit to be someone’s father”.

Danny's skint, no change there. His girlfriend Amy's left him, the flat's a mess, and has got nothing to smoke. The only thing different today is, he's going to get his legs broken. Danny owes some bad people money. If he doesn't come up with GBP 800 by tonight, a lady called Cathy will be calling with a baseball bat. He can't beg, can't borrow and isn't much cop at stealing, so Danny, Amy and her Dad set off on a quest through Leeds to get him the dosh. From Beeston to Briggate, casino to karaoke, with Cathy and a psycho called Cauldron in pursuit, will Danny get his happy ending or is he just the no-hope Scuffer other people see? "Scuffer" opens at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in March 2006, and is the latest from Leeds writer Mark Catley. His acclaimed plays "Sunbeam Terrace" and "Crap Dad" also premiered at the Playhouse, and are both published by Oberon Books.