ASBO BOZO

In a forgotten northern town, an Antisocial Behaviour Officer listens to the complaints of local residents. She’s very good at her job. And she cares. She cares so much. Which is why it’s such a pisstake when everyone forgets her 30th birthday…

ASBO BOZO is a play about isolation, responsibility, and the emotional toll of supporting people at society’s forgotten fringes. A day in the life of someone who gives her all to others - and gets nowt back.

Praise for previous work

★★★★★ (5) This Be The Verse, Reviews Hub

“It’s a delightful play, brought fully to life by Duncan’s beautifully modulated acting. Her ability to register tiny changes of emotion has something of Emma Thompson in it.”

“Highly imaginative, entertaining and moving facets of human life.”

“Well-wrought play moves sinuously between comedy and glimpses of tragedy”

“The writing is really beautiful” - Middle Child Theatre Company

“The characters and world of the play leap off the page” - Papatango Theatre Company

“A textured, specific and rich exploration of the world” - The Abbey Theatre

Writer & Performer Georgina Duncan

Co-created with Colm Gleeson & Will Bishop

Sound Designer Isabel Buchanan

Poster Photography Jake Bush

Georgina, Colm and Will first collaborated for their 5 star show This Be The Verse in 2022.

Georgina is an actor and writer from East Lancashire who graduated from LAMDA in 2018. She is excited by plays that champion working class and regional voices, and that balance entertainment and heartache. She writes stories about ordinary folk who find themselves in ‘ordinary exceptional circumstances’ and celebrate the messy and beautiful limits of being human.

Her first play, Small Vessels, was long-listed for both BOLD Theatre's and the Theatre Royal Haymarket's playwriting competitions, and reached the top 2% of submissions for the Papatango New Writing Prize. Her second play, Sapling (Formerly known as In Memoriam), was shortlisted for BOLD Theatre’s and Druid’s playwriting competitions, and was highly commended by both The National Theatre’s and The Royal Court Theatre’s readers teams.  A rehearsed reading of the play was held at The Bush Theatre. She’s just completed The Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab and Theatre503’s Wandsworth Writes, and in 2024 was commissioned to write a new play, Penalty for Improper Use, for LAMDA Mish Mash Festival. The play was subsequently selected to have a rehearsed reading at Theatre503.

Colm and Will met at LAMDA and started writing in 2021. Their first play was I Have Heard You Calling in the Night, which was quickly turned into a short film, playing at film festivals all over the world and winning multiple awards. They then contributed two plays - Anadiplosis and Canary - to This Be The Verse, a night of short plays. In 2024, they wrote California in Norfolk, a drama released on Audible.