Title: Lent
Description: 'Lent' is a semi-autobiographical account of boyhood and developing sexuality. As it depicts a 'young boy centre stage in an adult play', the work is fraught with the preoccupations of a thirteen-year-old adolescent, superimposed within the larger and more mature themes of orphanage and abandonment, societal and financial pressures, and love and companionship. Wilcox's play takes place in a bygone era, and in an enclosed and inaccessible setting as the Gorse Park School; still, the uncertainties and growing pains associated with young adulthood depicted within 'Lent' transcend these dramatic limitations, and speak clearly to the modern experience. The play premiered in London's Hammersmith Lyric Studio in 1983.