The mid-80s. Four bright Oxford students set up a radical group which is commandeered by New Labour to become an 'alternative think-tank'. As the years go by, its initially idealistic members start pursuing their own goals. One joins the World Bank, one makes a fortune as an Internet pioneer; one becomes an MP...One, always the most uncompromising, goes to help the Palestinian cause and gets killed at Nablus. 'You know how you never see a tyre warehouse until you get a flat tyre...I went home to my parents, went for a walk out the back, past the old hospital, hardly noticed it before and now, now it's gone, sold off, there's three-storey flats with underground garages there, private park...' The Unthinkable is a play about 'not noticing'; not noticing that one's ideals have become warped; not noticing that being active in party politics is different from being engaged in political activity; not noticing that amassing a personal fortune and professing socialism might be a contradiction in terms; and not noticing that New Labour is not really about socialism at all. The Unthinkable premieres at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre produced by Michael Grandage - now also running the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse - and directed by Josie Rourke, Artistic Associate of the Royal Court Theatre. It is Steve Waters' follow-up to his breakthrough play, World Music, which The Times called 'explosive...urgent and essential viewing' Times

Book Information
ISBN 9781854598264
Author Steve Waters
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Weight(grams) 160g