2nd May 1977
From: Tuesday, 20th October 2009
To: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Synopsis
Best mates Jake and Will wake up to a new world order and try to memorise the cabinet before their politics A Level class. Jake dreams of Number 10, Will dreams of Jake. A smouldering new play from one of Britain's most exciting young writers about seizing the present, escaping the past and the audacity of hope for the future.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 21 October 2009
Ambition is a narrow corridor, a passage which can perhaps lead to nowhere at all. Jack Thorne’s play 2nd May 1997 shows us three couples, within which pairing one person has the infection of ruthless ambition more or less virulently. They represent the end, the middle and the beginning of political careers. Two of the ambitious are users; one is used.In the aftermath of New Labour’s election victory on the eponymous date, we first meet a Conservative MP whose health is crumbling almost as fast as his voters’ support and whose wife looks forward to a leisurely future which he cannot bear to contemplate. Then a Liberal Democrat activist finds himself with a drunken girl who mistook him for someone much more powerful. Two sixth-formers make up the third couple with one setting his sights on Cambridge and a glittering political career and the other with more human longings.
The casting for this collaborative production between Nabokov, the Bush Theatre, Watford...
Creative
Jack Thorne (Author)
Nabokov (Producer)
Bush Theatre (in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Mercury Colchester) (Producer)
George Perrin (Director)
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