Exploring the dark intersections of power and personal struggles, the narrative delves into eight distinct historical moments. Characters include soldiers grappling with mortality due to governmental greed, a political fixer navigating a scandal, a journalist facing the harsh realities of integrity, and a domestic assault spiraling into a witch trial. Each vignette highlights the pervasive influence of state terror and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in turbulent times.
A new comedy by Torben Betts, starring Olivier & Evening Standard award winner Janie Dee. A searing, sharp, state of the nation comedy from one of the UK's most exciting playwrights.
A searingly funny contemporary look at one family and at Britain today from one of the country's most in-demand playwrights.
A play from the brilliant playwright Torben Betts, centered around the recession in Britain. Looking at the political and class consequences for the 'real people' in this comedy play.
A darkly funny satire on modern-day life, by an award-winning playwright.
Includes: The Optimist, The Swing of Things, and The Company Man.
Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades.With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter CrazeA volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts’ hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator (White Bear and BAC) was a Time Out Critics' Choice, while his Five Visions of the Faithful (White Bear), is a series of uncompromising narratives exploring freedom, faith, death and desire. In Silence and Violence the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor as Betts examines the artist’s quest for self-expression in a Philistine state. Betts’ first radio play, The Last Days of Desire, was commissioned by the BBC.
