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Member Login | View Basket View Basket [IMG] IFrame: a60acf01 [IMG] IFrame Photo credit: Robert Day buy tickets [IMG] Photo credit: Robert Day buy tickets buy tickets Tweet Share buy tickets WHAT'S ON? buy tickets The Conspirators LONDON SEARCH | UK Venue: Orange Tree Theatre IFrame SEARCH | ADVANCED Where: Outer London [IMG] SEARCH | SHOWS OPENING Date Reviewed: 5 September 2011 & CLOSING WOS Rating: starstarstarstar IFrame Reader Reviews: View and add to our user reviews [IMG] STAY IN-TOUCH In its fortieth birthday season, the Orange Tree [IMG] Join RSS Feed commendably digs up an early play by its most remarkable Join mailing list "house" dramatist, Vaclav Havel, one written when he was JOIN OUR MAILING LIST a banned writer three years after the Soviet invasion of Q Why join yet ALL STORIES Czechoslovakia in 1968 put paid to the Prague Spring. another mailing list? Most Popular This is the British premiere - in a translation by Tomas A Because, if you Latest Stories Rychetsky and Carol Rocamara - of a play Havel says was visit the theatre [IMG] the hardest to write, with the result that it may be his more than once or BLOGS weakest; but Sam Waters's spirited and perfectly cast twice a year, we production still makes of it a rousing political satire. could save you MICHAEL COVENEY hundreds of pounds. JO CAIRD | OUTINGS | The former dictator is lying low. The makeshift ARCHIVES authority resides with the head of the armed forces, the IFrame chief of police, the state prosecutor, the head of [IMG] SECTIONS censorship and a rich widow who is an intimate, or at least confidante, of them all. Mindful of the dangers of IFrame OFF-WEST END | DANCE | "latent authoritarianism" this group forms a secret, OPERA | NORTH WEST | revolutionary council. Latest Reviews NORTH EAST | CENTRAL | SCOTLAND | SOUTH EAST | Mayhem ensues to the accompaniment of the cries of Swallows & Amazons SOUTH WEST | PRESS tortured prisoners offstage, sullen protest on the starstarstarstar RELEASES streets, undercover sexual liaisons and hints that the Stones in his Pockets senior judge might be a child molester. Havel's point is starstarstarstar PRESS RELEASES that sexual depravity is a consequence of regime change Potted Panto corruption; the body politic is overrun with worms. starstarstarstar Press Release section Dick Whittington - see the latest When the prosecutor's wife finds him groping the office (Wimbledon) announcements secretary, she makes him bend over and flays his bottom starstarstarstar You can now add your with his own belt. The chief of police sticks pins in Matthew Bourne's press releases any departing posterior. Helga the widow, played with Nutcracker! directly to lubricious malice by Lucy Tregear, keeps her top brass starstarstarstarstar Whatsonstage.com. lovers dangling, until David Rintoul's absolutely Noises Off Click here to find out terrifying police chief seduces her in one of the most starstarstarstar how. savage sex scenes imaginable. A Christmas Carol starstarstarstar DISCUSSION BOARD The new committee moves towards dissolving parliament The Sooty Christmas Show [IMG] Forums and silencing the media. But a surprise development starstarstarstarstar [IMG] Join the Board stalls the headlong rush to the abyss. Or does it? This Dublin Carol starstarstar [IMG] Event Calendar is a fascinating play partly because you never quite Howl's Moving Castle [IMG] Theatre Jobs know where it's going; and of course we're obsessed starstarstar [IMG] Create a Blog anyway with what happens next in countries in turmoil. More>> The chief whip in these circumstances is not an officer, click for all reviews but a kid leather sex aid liberally applied by the police chief to his pliant and salacious widow. And the Latest News curtain line in the first act is just that: a reminder of a domestic shopping item. Cast: Stewart-Jarrett in Arcola Disney, Officer, It's curtains in more ways than one for Christopher Master Class Ravenscroft's furtive and oleaginous prosecutor, beset Ian Dury Musical Reasons by Clare Vousden as his vinegary wife and various other to be Cheerful Tours in weasel apparatchiks, deftly done by Kieron Jecchinis, 2012 Alister Cameron and Vincent Brimble. After a slow start, Cast: Glen & Emmerson in the black comedy accelerates with an irresistible Vanya, Huis Clos, Bush momentum. 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