Performance

VenueFinborough
Other spaces: The Finborough
TownInner London
CountyGreater London
From9th January 2011
To24th January 2011
WhenJan 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 at 19:30
PricesFrom £13.00. To £13.00.
What is currently on at Finborough (V199)

Oh, to be in England

Oh, to be in EnglandT0588270656
Like Pinner's contemporaneous 1973 Stalin play The Teddy Bears' Picnic, Oh, To Be In England was unproduceable at the time of its writing because of its unapologetic skewering of political extremism in the UK. Unlike The Teddy Bears' Picnic, which finally ran in 1990 to press acclaim, Oh, To Be In England has remained lost. After thirty-five years, it is now receiving its world premiere after thirty five years. Frighteningly prescient, and tragically current, Oh, To Be In England is a dark comedy examining what it means to live in an ex-empire in economic free-fall, and the political and personal extremism that results when all other belief is lost. A middle-aged Englishman, bred to believe in his innate superiority as a birthright of class, race, and gender, loses his job in the City. Left floundering impotently in a world that is no longer cricket, his family, security, and sanity follow close behind.
Author David Pinner


Archive :: production:T0588270656, play:S01963048677, venue:V199

Production details

Part of RediscoveriesUK - A three month season of rediscovered plays by writers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

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Company

Producer Snakebit Productions (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre)
Director Mel Cook
Performer Peter Broome
Performer Jonathan Christie
Performer Daniel Fraser
Performer Natalie Lesser
Performer Charlotte Thornton
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