19:00, Tue 7th – Sat 11th November 2023 at Corpus Playroom
Michaelmas Week 5
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It also contains spoken references to death, torture, poverty, kidnapping, terrorism, and maltreatment of prisoners
Winner of CUADC's Playwriting Competition - Overall Winner
It’s commonplace: bombs go off at night and people disappear before dawn. None of that’s newsworthy. Everyday proceedings have their complications; some are fatal, some are more irritating. It’s a messy business - keeping the peace, controlling the masses, making sure everybody and everything is held on a tight leash.
Once, there were wars abroad. Now, there are wars at home. There’s fighting on the streets, and paperwork piling up on desks. These days money is scarce and food is scarcer. Any job is a job, if you keep your eyes and ears closed. And yet here we are: bringing love into a world of hate.
Cohen is a psychiatrist… was a psychiatrist. Now he needs a job. Soon, he will come face-to-face with a revolution, and a little too close with his past.