A play for today – political, topical and hard-hitting

Image for play ExtremismLeslie Manasseh talks to writer Anders Lustgarten and director Suzann McLean about their new play that explores an increasingly contentious issue

Ten traumatised students are alone in a classroom. A classmate has just been removed by the teacher and taken to the police under a provision of the Prevent programme – part of the government’s counter terrorism strategy.

Left to their own devices, the students react to what has just happened and the classroom steadily descends into paranoia, division and violence.

Theatre director Suzann McLean

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