Description
The woman is accustomed to taking on difficult assignments, to suppressing her feelings in the line of duty, to being responsible disposing of or silencing those the system wants out of the way. However, when her task is to infiltrate the anti-capitalist movement - young, diverse and full of hope for change - the MI5 agent begins to question her role. Are these people valid targets? And aren't they right to protest at the devastation caused by the greed of the multi-nationals, whose power has been allowed to grow unchecked?
A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy? Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.
About the Author
John McGrath died in 2002, after a long career of making political theatre. The monologue Hyperlynx was written shortly before his death, around the time of the anti-capitlist demonstrations in Genoa. It will be performed at the Pleasance Dome as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2002.
Reviews
A short, sharp piece of quite deadly sophistication about the power of the multinationals. Well done, that man. * John Peter, Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781840023381
Author John McGrath
Format Paperback
Page Count 54
Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy? Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.
About the Author
John McGrath died in 2002, after a long career of making political theatre. The monologue Hyperlynx was written shortly before his death, around the time of the anti-capitlist demonstrations in Genoa. It will be performed at the Pleasance Dome as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2002.
Reviews
A short, sharp piece of quite deadly sophistication about the power of the multinationals. Well done, that man. * John Peter, Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781840023381
Author John McGrath
Format Paperback
Page Count 54
Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
