BOLTON Octagon director Mark Babych presents a trilogy of plays at the Library Theatre in Manchester.

He directs Chris O'Connell's Street trilogy - Car, Raw and Kid - between March 15 and 19.

The plays portray the vulnerable and the violent as they lash out against the world around them.

From an adrenaline-fuelled car theft and the ritualised violence of teenage gangs to the new beginning offered by a baby in the womb, life on the "wrong side" of the tracks is shown without compromise or sentimentality.

The Trilogy, supported by an Arts Council national touring grant, comes to Manchester as part of a nationwide tour, which will be accompanied by a programme of theatre workshops and activities with young people.

The plays will be performed individually and as a trilogy, starting with Car and taking the audience through the whole narrative of the plays in one sitting.

Trilogy will be performed at the Manchester Library Theatre between Tuesday, March 15, and Saturday, March 19.