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After Haggerty

by David Mercer

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Rediscoveries Season 2006
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part…and you’ve got to put your bodies up against the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus. And you’ve got to make it stop.” – Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
The first London revival of David Mercer's political masterpiece
23 May - 17 Jun 2006
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In a turbulent 1968 London, drama critic Bernard Link navigates domestic chaos and personal revelations while dealing with the arrival of a loud American woman searching for her missing husband.

About The Play

About The Play

★★★★ Four Stars, Time Out

1968. The Eastern Bloc in crisis, America at war, Paris torn apart by riots… The world is in uproar and things will never be the same again. Drama critic Bernard Link has just moved into his new London flat, previously owned by the mysterious Haggerty. Soon Bernard’s calm is shattered by the arrival of Claire – a loud American with child in tow demanding to know the whereabouts of her husband, Haggerty – and Bernard’s father on a visit from Yorkshire, railing at everything from Bernard’s cowardice to “homos and blackies”… As Bernard comes to terms with his travels around the world, his domestic chaos and the experimental theatre troupe that drives him to drink, the packages from Haggerty begin to arrive…

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Cast

Crew

Director

Kirsty Housley

Producer

Presented by The Circuit

Design

Ellan Parry

Sound

Matt Downing

Lighting

Richard Williamson

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