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Finborough Theatre, London, EUR >>>

02 Mar 2010

Rogue State Theatre Company

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978-1408130582

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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first read as part of Central Lines: Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal, Stratford East join forces for a 2-week season of new play readings. Fresh and exciting, these new plays all share the concerns of culture, identity, race and religion in modern Britain.

A Day at the Racists is a devastatingly timely examination of the rise of the BNP in London. Pete Case used to be something - a leading Labour Party organiser in the local car factories. Now he struggles to get by as a decorator as immigrant workers undercut his best mate's firm, his son Mark can't get a job or onto the housing list and nobody, from his Labour MP to his granddaughter's teacher, seems to care. Then Pete finds unexpected hope: Gina is young, mixed race and standing for Parliament on a platform of helping the local community. She is standing for the British National Party. As Pete's rage and despair gradually overcome his longstanding loathing of the BNP, he is drawn into the world of Gina's campaign and finds himself entangled in a nightmare of political machinations that pit his closest relationships - son, best mate, lover - against his longest-held beliefs and newfound aims. Set in the very Barking constituency that BNP leader Nick Griffin is to stand for in the forthcoming General Election, A Day at the Racists is a uniquely brave and perceptive piece of political theatre that both attempts to understand why people might be drawn to the BNP and diagnoses the deeper cause of that attraction - the political abandonment and betrayal of the working class by New Labour.

2008

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or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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doubling

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When Tom and Susan, a New Jersey couple, lose their son in the attack on the twin towers, it begins to affect their marriage, friends and community. As Toms grief forces him to begin to question the post 9/11 orthodoxy, he finds himself not only at odds with his wife, but also with the government itself. As the neighbours take sides, shock jocks rant, conspiracy theories abound and politicians wave the flag, Tom and Susan are pushed to breaking point as one particular political clique appropriates a nations mourning.

2007

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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2007

WSR Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek

It is a very bad day for the chief of police. After 10 years languishing in prison, the state's last remaining political prisoner is insisting on taking an oath of loyalty to the country and its leader, and must therefore be released. Attempts by an enthusiastic police sergeant to act as an agent provocateur and stir uo dissension among the populatidn have failed as the people persistently refuse to break the law. The consequences of all this are gradually dawning on the chief of police even as he triesio bribe the poli6cal prisoner to remain a dissident. For the police and the criminal, the secret service and the revolutionary are entirely dependent on each other. You can't have one without the other. Can you even have such a thing as loyalty if there is no disloyalty? Written in 1958 by the Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek as a satire on the totalitarian state, The Police serves pretty well for today too, not least because, as adaptor Anders Lustgarten suggests, you need an enemy if you are going to wage a war on terror. Despite the orange Guanthamo-style prison suits, director Christopher Loscher never overplays the contemporary relevance in a production that demonstrates good acting, flair and confidence.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Verity Bargate Award Shortlist, 2007

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2007

Operating Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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extras

part of writer's block

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