"I read that if you fold a thousand origami cranes, you'll be granted a wish. 
At least some people believe that. It's nice to have something to believe in.
I've made your first one.
I dare you to fold the next"

It's 2010. Think pink iPods, Lady Gaga's meat dress, a catastrophic general election - and a protest Summer hopes will change the world. 

Summer has just turned eighteen. She's lucky enough to have the rest of her life to look forward to. She dreams of being a photographer - but it's hard to dream about the future when the world around you is on fire. What is there to look forward to exactly? Slimy men in blue ties are squeezing the country dry with austerity, deepening inequality for people everywhere. And they're coming for her education next. She's not going to have it.

The solution? Change the world. Duh. By going to a protest against increasing student fees, obviously. 

Armed with a brand new camera, her oldest friend, and her favourite Maya Angelou quote, Summer throws herself into her first ever protest, and has the best day of her life, literally. She knows this one will go down in history. This has got to change things - she can feel it.

And she's right. It changes everything. Just not in the way she expects.

A debut play by Demi Wilson-Smith, Cranes, is a true story about the suppression of protest, the brutality of the criminal justice system, and the heroes who don't get commemorated by statues. At least not at first.