Scores is an imprint that publishes scripts and performance texts written by artists, theatre-makers and performance-makers whose practices incorporate elements from both the theatrical and visual arts.

‘Here we have saints for the saintless. Bemuscled archetypes creeping up our storylines all the way from antiquity to better stalk our fantasies, and continue their trade in classic barstool-wisdom as they do so. Holding court and telling tall tales. And in Apocrypha, Jalilipour’s gallery of ancient gods, lost girls and cockroaches remind us that these fantasies are the same as they ever were—simply the devastating need to know that we are okay and are allowed to exist.’
– Carle Gent, author of The Balls of Alban

‘The brute paucity of Jalilipour’s writing in Apocrypha (part fairytale, part myth, part erotica) is a thrill to behold. Jalilipour cracks open the strange and poetic worlds of Christian sainthood and Iranian folklore, electrifying their queer and feminist presences to stunning effect. It’s sexy in a scary way and scary in a sexy way. These tales pulse with life, reminding us that “freedom is not to be taken for granted: it is a constant struggle, something to fight for, something to demand. Never a gift.” Apocrypha cuts to the quick, and leaves a scar. I’d follow Jalilipour into this hall of mirrors, trans saints, wet knives all over again.’
– D Mortimer, author of Speed Glum Hero

‘Violent, sexy, and (ir)religious, Kasra Jalilipour’s Apocrypha, a polyvocal homage to and reimagining of three Christian Virgin Martyrs through a modern trans-masculine rubric, is in turns sharply satirical and deeply heartfelt. The supernatural figure of the Jinn is repurposed for a scary but hot story of burgeoning lesbian desire and female homosociality, while a poetic rereading of an Iranian children’s tale reveals the impossibility of heterosexuality in the face of male violence. If you like work about resistance, faith, torture, and queer desires, you’ll love this.’
– Ray Filar

‘Kasra Jalilipour’s Apocrypha invites us into a trans-imaginary that draws on histories and depictions of gender-ambiguous saints in Christianity and beyond to trace shared queer and feminist struggles across millennia. Through three short plays and visual artworks, Kasra Jalilipour opens space for queer resistance to emerge within Christian mythology and Iranian folklore, offering a practice of fictioning that gives life to hidden or dismissed histories.’
– Tara Fatehi