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Gagarin Way
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 4m
Gregory Burke
Gagarin Way
by Gregory Burke
Set in the storeroom of a multi-national electronics factory. A cruel, funny play about a human heist gone horribly wrong.
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Cast Size
4m -
Target Audience
Adult
Accolades
- WINNER! 2002 Meyer/Whitworth Award
WINNER! 2002 Critics' Circle Award
WINNER! 2001 Scotsman Fringe First of the Firsts Award
Details
Summary
Set in the storeroom of a multi-national electronics factory, Tom, an undergraduate security guard, has been supplementing his wage by assisting Eddie, an articulated, self-educated, psychopathic factory worker, in a computer chip scam. Tom returns to the storeroom to find that Eddie, together with anarchist revolutionary Gary, has kidnapped a management consultant with the intention of making a political statement. The consultant is not Japanse, but from Scots mining stock. Eddie declares he's only in it for the violence. Everything goes hilariously, hideously, wrong.
History
Gagarin Way was premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 12 July 2001, and the Royal National Theatre, London in September 2001.
Cast Attributes
Keywords
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting A factory storeroom
- Cautions
- Intense Adult Themes
Media
“Blistering, brilliant, crazily confident.” — The Guardian
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.