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Evening Standard
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Nancy Durrant

The Joy of Text: Stars come out to expose your hilarious text exchanges to raise funds for playwrighting prize

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We all know the feeling, that drop in the pit of the stomach when you realise that your phone has helpfully changed the word ‘fajitas’ to ‘vaginas’. To your boss. Who has kindly offered to pick up lunch. Or there’s that rapidly rising hysteria that occurs when it becomes clear that your mum, like David Cameron, does in fact still think that ‘LOL’ means ‘lots of love’ and has just dropped it like a depth charge at your freshly bereaved aunt on the family Whatsapp. “So sorry Jean, he was a good man LOL”

Now the theatre production company Platform Presents is bringing these moments of cringe-making hilarity to the stage for one night only to raise money for their annual Playwrights Prize, which supports writers with a cash prize and the chance to have their script read and performed.

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