From left: Charlie, 17, and Keane, 19, both from Eastfield, and Jack, 17, from Scarborough, pictured at Oliver's Mount, overlooking Scarborough. Keane wrote a play as a ‘love letter’ to his home town Photograph: Polly Braden/The Guardian It’s the morning after a wet and stormy day in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. The waves, which the previous day had been crashing dramatically on the harbour walls, have calmed and a few brave souls have entered the water with surfboards.