19:45, Tue 20th – Sat 24th May 2014 at ADC Theatre
Easter Week 4
"What's it going to be then, eh?"
Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside.
Anthony Burgess's 1987 play with music, based on his own 1962 novella of the same name, promises to be an excitingly provocative production, presented by Cambridge Shortlegs with the Dryden Society