The winning scene that opens Tom Fowler’s new work proves we are in the hands of a writer with a knack for comedy as well as a cast who can deliver on it. It introduces us to Hope, a woman returning to her home country for the first time in 24 years, to find it has become a corporation-run police state.
When Hope befriends Isla, a young woman raising her baby nephew, the two quickly find themselves on the run. Naomi Dawson’s design combines with Annie May Fletcher’s sound to establish just the right note of cheerfully fluorescent unease for the none-too-distant dystopia Fowler has imagined.
