Slash is a stylised pressure cooker black comedy that draws upon the tropes of dark academia, murder mysteries, horror and highschool movies, to explore themes of friendship, secrecy, and revenge. The play follows three friends and one stranger, Danny, Tom, Billie and Alex, who find themselves locked into the boys’ toilets at a school reunion. What initially seems like an amusing coincidence quickly turns into something sinister, when the foursome discover the murdered body of another of their school friends, along with a clue to a dark and hidden event from their past. Realising it is no accident that they have all been trapped, the only way to unravel the mystery of the present is to delve into one from their past. As they are forced to dig up things that they had long since tried to bury, tensions rise and lifelong friendships are tested. It might not just be their relationships that do not survive the experience.