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Dateline: 17th January, 2005
We Want our ****ing Country Back! Danelaw is a new satire on the true story of a plan by an extreme right wing group to establish a White Supremacist homeland in East Anglia, and have Chelmsford as its capital.
The group promised a race war against 'invading' immigrants and a system they believed had abandoned working class white people. Unfortunately for them, the great Chelmsford dream was never to exist. The party’s accountant began to embezzle funds and was subsequently stabbed to death in a caravan in Harlow.
This whitest of black comedies takes its lead from these events to ask why there is race hate, what England means to us now, and what, if any, redemption there can be for those who are part of ‘the absolute gutter scumbag reject class’. A businessman bankrolls a hooligan to create a White Supremacist State – The Danelaw, based on the Viking Kingdom that once ruled half of England. Danelaw charts the mental disintegration of the central character, Cliff, and the downfall of a great but desperately misguided vision.
After working as an actor for many years, Peter Hamilton turned to writing. His work concerns the marginalised and dispossessed sections of society. Danelaw is Peter Hamilton’s second play, following Switchboard, produced at Theatre 503 in 1999 starring Jean Boht and Terence Hillier.
The Danelaw refers to the area formed by the division of East England between the river Thames and Tees amongst the East Anglians and the Danish following King Alfred’s defeat of the Viking invaders in 886.
This is Lucid Theatre’s first production. Lucid aim to develop, workshop and perform the very best new contemporary writing to create a clear, precise and intelligent theatrical experience. The six founder members are all graduates of Drama Studio London: Anna Blizard, Andrew Casey, Caroline Groom, Lucinda Holloway, Robert Shilton and Alastair Trevill.
BTG readers can get two tickets for the price of one for the first week of the run. See our Special Offers page for details. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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