Four 'criminals' in a dystopian UK where breathing wrong gets you life. Sound familiar?
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
Acting
Four monologues that crackle with stage-trained precision
Production
Chillingly cheap sets amplify claustrophobia
Writing
Crimes escalate from absurd to genuinely haunting
Director
Stuart Burge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made at peak Thatcherism, it channels 1980s nuclear anxiety and rising prison populations into theatrical allegory.
Stuart Burge directed Olivier's Othello; this was his rare foray into politically-charged sci-fi on a BBC budget.
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