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# PREVIEW Brighton Fringe: Passing On by Sean Denyer
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/brighton-fringe-preview-passing-on-by-sean-denyer/
- Published: 2018-02-27T14:19:57.000Z
- Updated: 2018-02-27T19:59:04.000Z
- Description: Brian and Tom, together for ten years, would like to have a child, to be as Tom says, “a proper family with two dads”. When their friend, Jane, agrees to act as a surrogate, it seems they can really have it all. But after Tom is very reluctantly pressed into finding out about his biological parents,
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## Your Family – Forever part of your D.N.A.

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**Brian and Tom, together for ten years,** would like to have a child, to be as Tom says, “a proper family with two dads”.

When their friend, Jane, agrees to act as a surrogate, it seems they can really have it all. But after Tom is very reluctantly pressed into finding out about his biological parents, what he discovers will turn their dream of a family into their worst nightmare, threatening to destroy everything they have.

**Passing On**, a gripping new play by **Sean Denyer** is being producing by [Acting Out](http://www.actingoutgroup.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) and [Blue Heart Theatre](http://www.bluehearttheatre.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk). Acting Out, Dublin’s LGBT theatre group recently won the 2017 National GALA Award for Irish Arts and Literature. It is Blue Heart Theatre’s second visit to Brighton following a successful run of, **Couples+Pairs** at the festival last year.

**Writer Sean Denyer, also a Consultant in Public Health Medicine, said:** *“Now gay couples can, thankfully, have most of the same choices as anyone else in terms of family formation, I wanted to explore this in the context of the rapidly advancing developments in genetics and screening. We can now find out more and more about our genetic make-up, but is this necessarily always a good thing? More and more people create their own ‘family’, but are there things about our biological families that we just can’t escape from?”*

Featuring a talented cast of Irish actors, this gripping and thought-provoking play will stimulate a lot of debate for audiences about genetics, ethics, surrogacy and the impact of nature and nurture. It places this in the context of a powerful and insightful examination of a close and loving relationship, tested to the limit by discoveries from the past.

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**Event:** Passing on by Sean Denyer

**Where:** Sweet Werks 1 (Venue 18), 15-17 Middle StreetBrighton and Hove, BN1 1AL

**When:** May 21-24

**Time:** 9pm

**Cost:** £8/£6

**To book tickets online, [click here:](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/passing-on-122770/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**