STILL HERE 

by Mari Lloyd 

Rhys wants to be a boxer while his father wants to learn Welsh. Yasmin is living with her nan while her mother wants to be looking over the plains of Uganda. The children can’t speak to their parents, and the parents don’t understand how their children are feeling.

In Mari Lloyd’s moving and sharply funny play, we see the world through the eyes of two sparring 18-year-olds in a small Welsh ex-mining town as they try to comprehend the actions of their parents and begin to realise they have bigger things to fight for.

With Phillip John Jones and Emma Kaler

Directed by Julia Stubbs

STILL HERE premiered on the London Fringe in 2023 receiving excellent reviews from critics and audiences and an award nomination for its two young Welsh actors. Now, Still Here Productions in association with 20 South Street and Grey Swan bring this acclaimed play to the Sparc’s Soar Centre as part of a March 2025 South Wales tour supported by the Arts Council of Wales Night Out scheme.

“Mari Lloyd’s poignantly funny play about two teenagers trying to find their way in an unforgiving and uncertain world is a real treat.” ★★★★ Fairy Powered Productions

Age 14+

Content Information strong language throughout; reference to self-harm and attempted suicide

Running time approx. 80 minutes with no interval