Scene 2: Leah is still trying to gain Phil’s attention. This time she talks about the nature of happiness. She shows him a Tupperware container and says it is Jerry. She describes how she has killed him. Cathy doesn't care, she's too busy running things. You wouldn’t believe how thingshave got. Phil, she's insane! She cut a first years finger off! That’s what they say anyway. Doesn't that bother you? Aren’t you bothered?! No matter what the circumstance, you know the gang will defend itself. Not just from outsiders, but from itself. Weak leaders are seen as threats. And they constantly have to be on the lookout for challenges. Defiantly a victim of that.

For years we thought that Chimps were our closest living relative but now they're saying it’s Bonobos.But as the lies begin to escalate the group goes with it. And allow the man to be framed and it appears to work until.' Who matches our made up description and there's even the posties DNA on the jumper. I mean, that’s impossible! Surely?! Can I just say John, we haven't done anything But if we have done a thing, which we haven't, but if have than we did it together! Whatever we did, we did. Me and Phil, It wasn’t just Phil. He gets us to frame an innocent person, gets someone to identify the body and kill Adam when he turns up alive. Everything is much better though, I mean really it is! Everyone's working together, they're a lot happier.

Scene 1: The audience learn that someone is ‘not going’…this is a reference to Brian not going to the police station It appears Cathy has shown initiative. She's managed to find a fat balding postman with bad teeth and rubbed to rub his DNA on the jumper.'

So, Phil gets Cathy to kill Adam and I've had enough. And I finally stop talking and leave. Which, amazingly prompts Phil to talk to me for the first time. By the bridge, last week. A fat Caucasian male, Five-nine say, with thinning hair and a postman's uniform. Sad eyes... Softly spoken.

Out of the blue, one of the gang discovers Adam. He's not dead at all. He's living in a hedge, just banged his head. Eating dead animals. So, what do you do?

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DNA was developed ten years ago as a part of National Theatre’s Connections Scheme, which commissions playwrights to write plays for young performers aged fourteen to eighteen. A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that their cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where is the incentive to put things right. Then we plant one of Adams jumpers, with the D.N.A of a random stranger on it near the scene of the crime, and we put them off our scent.

Scene 3: Adam is alive and has been living in a hedge. He has survived by living off dead animals. He has clearly sustained a head injury. Phil instructs Jan, Mark and Lou to leave and not say anything. He shows Cathy how to kill Adam by tying a plastic bag around Brian’s head (who is by not on medication and is clearly losing his mind). Leah begs him not to do this. It's clear that the gang has its own set of rules, which override those of the world outside. Going outside the gangs ranks, is a no-no.' Scene 1: Mark and Jan discuss that someone is ‘dead’ and this throws the audience into the middle of the action.

Even Leah can only handle so much before she leaves. It might not be bullying, but Phil's torturous silences eventually drive her away.'