Office Guerrillas
Office Guerrillas was selected to perform at Hampstead Theatre's Start Nights, a new writing initiaitve.
The play was also showcased in a 'script-in-hand' performance at RADA.
“I hate the sixties. Everyone says that was the time the world changed, everything afterwards was a comedown wasn’t it? Well, we missed out on it, we’re the runt generation, so please stop talking about how you had such a wild time and how you feel sorry for us today you boring old sixties fake rebels”.
Mike, Office Guerrillas
Office Guerrillas concerns a group of bored and disillusioned office workers who discover they are going to be made redundant because of ‘new automated practices’, they band together to form an unlikely "underground resistance movement" and occupy the building as a protest, however, things go seriously wrong when they unwittingly take a senior manager hostage.
Office Guerrillas explores a question frequently asked by a young, restless, militant generation in the sixties, but perhaps largely absent in our current apolitical climate; whether you change society by the ballot box or by the fist? Throwing bricks or peaceful protest? Poll tax riots or petitions?
RADA
Dir: Jim Kenworth
Cast: Lorraine Arnold, Anthony Plowman, Jonathan Rigby, Mark Rose, Natasha Seale, Katie Warren, Jason Wing
Hampstead Theatre, Start Nights
Dir: Jim Kenworth
Cast: Tom Hayes, Jim Pope, Natasha Seale, Katie Warren, Jason Wing
MIKE. "Paris ’68. Yeah, sure, up went the barricades, burning cars in the streets, paving stones and Molotov cocktails, government close to collapse, so far so, good. But you never told me about the end did you, Ed? De Gaulle ordered the workers to return to work, threatened a state of emergency if they didn’t. The revolution was fading. Workers returned to work or were ousted from their plants by the police. The students called off street demonstrations. The government banned leftist organisations. The police retook the Sorbonne on 16 June. And guess what? De Gaulle triumphed in the next election. And that was that. It was a failure, Ed. A stone cold failure. Now, would you mind shuttin’ the fuck up and let us do it our way. Tie him up, Chris. Never trust a hippie, eh?"
