Fran & Leni - Sadie Hasler

I was the punk. I was born punk. But she was my rock. The only one I ever had.1976. Fran and Leni meet in a North London comp. Three years later they are The Rips. Girls with guitars, bored of playing nice. Music, sex, fishnets, tits and spitting. A two-girl escape from everything sugar and spice. Fran & Leni is punchy two-hander about punk rock and life-long friendship from the writer of the critically acclaimed Pramkicker. This edition was published to coincide with the play's production at Assembly, George Square, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, after its world premiere at Latitude Festival 2016.

Sadie Hasler is a multi award-winning columnist, playwright, and actor. Her plays Pramkicker and Fran & Leni have been performed in Washington DC, Sydney, Chicago, Melbourne, Oslo, Rome, Milan, Asti, Edinburgh, & around the UK. They are published by Methuen Drama. She is co Founder/Artistic Director of theatre company Old Trunk. Sadie has been awarded Columnist of the Year in both the Society of Editors and EDF Media Awards. She wrote weekly columns for The Essex Echo and The Gazette newspapers for six years, monthly for glossy Essex Life, and has written articles for The Lancet, Standard Issue, and Total Production Magazine.
She recently contributed an essay to the book Last Christmas alongside Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke, and Meryl Streep, edited by Emma Thompson and Greg Wise, out October 2019. She is currently editing her first book, Beautiful Things. "The voice of a generation" - Deborah Frances-White on The Guilty Feminist