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The Road to the Sea

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 2m

Don Taylor

The Road to the Sea
by Don Taylor

"An extraordinary play tackling the major intellectual betrayals of the 20th century and showing all Taylor's passion for politics and history ... Taylor's walking Jay takes on board communism, Thatcherism, globalization and a century of racial murder ... What is bracing, however, is to enter a public theatre and hear people discussing something larger than their emotional problems." - Michael Billington, Guardian

Jay paces the carpet in his squalid north London flat ruminating on mankind in the twentieth century. Jo, the daughter he abandoned along wi…

The Road to the Sea

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Jay paces the carpet in his squalid north London flat ruminating on mankind in the twentieth century. Jo, the daughter he abandoned along with her mother twenty-five years before, has suddenly turned up, determined to know her father. His stepdaughter, Harriet, is protective of him and suspects Jo's motives. But who is Jay? The charismatic political agitator who met Jo's mother in the Paris riots of 1968 and who predicted the evils of globalization? Or the cynic and hypocrite who abandoned his radical principles to make a fortune? Or the loving stepfather and devoted husband who made and gave away a fortune to charity - a paragon amongst men?
  • Setting Various simple settings.
  • Features Period Costumes

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"An extraordinary play tackling the major intellectual betrayals of the 20th century and showing all Taylor's passion for politics and history ... Taylor's walking Jay takes on board communism, Thatcherism, globalization and a century of racial murder ...

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