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Devised by the Playhouse Young Company
Directed by Paul Simpson
The arrival of a divisive political figure, tasked with re-enforcing government policy on community and housing, forces the residents of a neglected block of flats in the town centre to stay indoors. Obliged to confront issues within their own four walls, just one floor apart each family explores its own conflicts: generational responsibility, marriage breakdown, separated families, acceptance of illness. With the speech delivered, and confinement finally over, in its wake remains an even more vulnerable building.
Devised over the ten weeks of the Summer Term, this piece has been conceived and written by the Playhouse Young Company, an ensemble of young theatre makers aged 17 to 25.