What does it even mean to grow up in 2026? How are you supposed to figure out who you are when the world keeps shifting? Wars raging, ice caps melting, endless scrolling, and, oh – there’s a poetry exam in twelve hours!
As three friends sit down to revise the night before their GCSE poetry exam, their minds are everywhere. One is being trolled online, another’s struggling to hold it together, and the third is just trying to make sense of it all. But as the night unfolds, a dark secret that binds them begins to surface – revealing a story about friendship, identity, and the power of words.
Simile is a bold new performance created for young people, and performed by Highly Sprung professionals. Inspired by the Worlds and Lives GCSE poetry anthology, it fuses physical theatre, dance, spoken word, and raw emotion to explore what it means to grow up today.
In a world of chaos, connections and constant change, Simile captures the excitement, fear, hope and uncertainty of becoming who you are. Because when it’s just you, a pen, and a poem – you have to decide what your story will be.