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A wealthy businessman, Warboys, pays a visit to an imprisoned hooligan called Cliff. At this unlikely meeting of minds a plot is unveiled to create a White Supremicist State, starting with Chelmsford as the capital. In return for Cliff's 'leadership' and contacts, Warboys will provide all the money, equipment and training required to start a race war.

Based on the true accounts of White Supremacist activists, Peter Hamilton's second play charts the mental disintergration of the central character, Cliff, and in doing so asks why there is race-hate, what England means to us now, and why anybody would choose Chelmsford as the capital of anywhere.

By turns shocking and amusing, Danelaw is a play about lost and marginalised people who have no hope of creating a normal life for themselves, let alone a White Supremacist State. The ending is inevitably bloody and horrific, but in the aftermath there is a sense of redemption and even hope for some, if not all, of those who are part of "the absolute gutter scumbag reject class."






		JAN - FEB 2005 DANELAW by Peter Hamilton THE WHITEST OF BLACK COMEDIES This production took place at the White Bear, Kennington in early 2005. Synopsis A wealthy businessman, Warboys, pays a visit to an imprisoned hooligan called Cliff. At this unlikely meeting of minds a plot is unveiled to create a White Supremicist State, starting with Chelmsford as the capital. In return for Cliff's 'leadership' and contacts, Warboys will provide all the money, equipment and training required to start a race war. Based on the true accounts of White Supremacist activists, Peter Hamilton's second play charts the mental disintergration of the central character, Cliff, and in doing so asks why there is race-hate, what England means to us now, and why anybody would choose Chelmsford as the capital of anywhere. By turns shocking and amusing, Danelaw is a play about lost and marginalised people who have no hope of creating a normal life for themselves, let alone a White Supremacist State. The ending is inevitably bloody and horrific, but in the aftermath there is a sense of redemption and even hope for some, if not all, of those who are part of "the absolute gutter scumbag reject class." Cast: Cliff - Adam Booth Graham - Robert Shilton Jason - Andrew Casey Paul - Ian Rickson Rowena - Rebecca Peyton Tara - Caroline Groom Warboys - Stephen Kemble Directed by Alastair Trevill



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