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The One-Card - You can't do a thing without it! In the near future, Great Britain is at war with France, watching television gives you cancer and the One-Card is the government's way of keeping the populace in line. The One-Card is your passport, birth certificate, medical record, family gene history and curriculum vitae. It knows more about you than your mother and without it you don't exist. Meet Alan Mustard, a professional fraud, whose mission in life is to make his own blank One-Card, write his own past, present and future and then bugger off to Brazil with the profits. Say hello to his niece, Jean. Due to a genetic twist of fate, Jean doesn't exist. At least not according to the computer. If she applies for a One-Card she faces imprisonment for her part in Alan's crimes, so she's happy to enjoy the tax-free benefits of being a nobody until Alan can knock-up a fake card for her. But then Jean is offered a name, a job and a place in the real world. All she has to do is turn in the man she calls her uncle. But how do you catch a crook who, according to the almighty computer, has never done a wrong thing in his life? Me and my monkey is a black comedy about a future just waiting to happen.

Creatives/Company

Author: Mark Stay
Company: Slumming-It Theatre Company