"We always tried so hard to make a dent in something. To confirm our own stupid existence. Except when it really mattered."

In a city of empty houses, a derelict mansion is reborn as seven squatters fill it with the sounds of radical politics, drunken parties and broken dreams. Trying to build a home even as others are trying to kick it down proves dangerous, and fighters and dreamers clash as it is once again torn apart. Powerful new writing set against recession-era housing crises, Derelict questions whether raw idealism and everyday suburban reality can ever truly co-exist.

“You would think that when people are broke and have such a problem with bankers they’d think twice about buying a magazine that documents the latest outfit a footballer’s wife donned on her skeletal body.”

Lara Stavrinou’s fiery new play questions if young people today have anything left to believe in. Its vibrant outspoken characters attempt to break the mould, but when they are confronted by the memory of a prolific squatter named Zoe, they realise that it is not simply political beliefs that tie them together and must decide what it is that truly drives them.