Mogadishu (Nick Hern Books) - Softcover

This will do for the inner city secondary school what the History Boys did for posh grammar schools. With its multi-layered plot, societal themes, fertile language and conflicted characters, this is modern Shakespeare by any other name and deserves to be both transferred in time to a larger venue and onto school curricula. --Londonlist.com

Punchy, edgy and hard hitting. Franzmann has a terrific ear for the mercurial shifts of tone and register in teenage exchanges (among themselves and with adults) and equally terrific insight in to the shifting patterns of group dynamics. --Guardian

Crackles with confrontation, accusation, self-justification and threat...Broody, bullying Jason is a perfect expression of adolescent insecurity whose impact is so disastrous on other people and not least himself. It's a sad, sad play, but a very good one, and much, much more than just promising. --WhatsOnStage.com

When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report it as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past. Once the boy and his peers have decided to protect themselves by spinning a story of their own, Amanda finds herself sucked into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator. With the truth becoming increasingly cloudy and more dangerous day by day, it isn't long before careers, relationships and even lives are under threat in this chilling new drama from first time playwright, Vivienne Franzmann.