It Comes In Waves

A grief café in Lowestoft, a town mourning the loss of its high street on a coastline that’s crumbling like rich tea biscuits.

After losing her hubby, ageing Crystal wants to ‘love laugh live’ but maybe she just needs to chill out. After losing Dad, teenage Jordan just wants to like, get grieving over and done with and that… but grief is messy and comes in waves right? Group leader Howard just wants to help everyone else… But can he finally help himself and confront his own repressed grief?

Written by local writer James McDermott (EastEnders, Rubber Ring, Time & Tide) and drawing on his own experiences of bereavement after losing his father during the pandemic, ‘It Comes In Waves’ is a big-hearted community-spirited coastal comedy drama that laughs in the face of loss, explores how grief comes in waves and asks how we can help each other to stay afloat when it hits.

This production launches a brand new partnership between The Seagull Theatre and Eastern Angles. This will be the first-ever co-production between the two companies since their inception. Both companies are well known for their impressive history of local stories and high-quality theatre productions.