Lost Boys & Fairies

This was Libby Durdy, co-founder of Leeds-based Duck Soup Films, the production company behind acclaimed BBC One show Lost Boys & Fairies, discussing the origins of its Channel 4 drama series Dreamers at an RTS event last month.

Described by creator and writer of the show Lisa Holdsworth, as “the kids from Fame, but in Leeds”, Dreamers is a show about the lives, loves, friendships and rivalries of a teenage dance troupe set in and around the city’s Chapeltown area.

Set in Cardiff, the bilingual English and Welsh drama follows Gabriel and Andy, played by Sion Daniel Young (known from Deceit) and Fra Fee (Hawkeye), on their journey to adopt their first child. 

Gabriel is an artist and “performer­-extraordinaire” at a queer cabaret club called Neverland. Like Peter Pan, he has never really grown up. Andy, an accountant, is a picture of stability and middle-aged domesticity.