“slick, punchy and ambitious.”
The Guardian

With breakdancing, hip hop and a live soundtrack of brand new rap and urban beats, multi-award winning Grid Iron bring you a tale of housing scheme heroes, pure mental chavs* and graffiti dreams.

Over the past nine years the company have become renowned for their ground-breaking site-specific productions (The Bloody Chamber, Gargantua, Decky Does a Bronco, Fermentation, Those Eyes, That Mouth). While the team have occasionally placed work on the Scottish stage fierce finds them touring to a wide variety of conventional theatre spaces for the very first time.

fierce is the story of fourteen year old Finlay and his journey through the subculture of urban Scotland . Born with an extraordinary gift for drawing, Finlay only finds his true self when he has a spray can in his hand. Unable to relate to those around him, he finds release in the alter ego of his tag as his work begins to change the landscape and even the lives of those around him.

Along the way Finlay is befriended by Wee Babz, a hip hop-obsessed skateboarder with a gift for self-promotion; Edie, a moody goth with the biggest attitude in Scotland and Pokey who just wants to sit on a wheelie bin smoking Lambert & Butler.

Bringing together a cast of some of Scotland's most exciting young performers fierce asks the question - if your life is on the twenty-second floor, how can you make your mark on the world - before the rain, or the council, take it away?

I saw this train go by once wi a big painting on the side.
It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw.
I thought, if I could dae one o my drawings on the side of a train
be like. setting it free

fierce
Life can be epic wherever you are.

* Chav n: ned; radge; bam; townie; charver, scally; spide. As in "Shut your f**kin pus, you chav b*****d".

Containing bad language and some scenes of violence, this production is recommended for age 14+

fierce was first performed on the 7th May 2004 at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.