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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.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
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
  • 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.

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Authors

Author

Gregory Burke

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