This play’s name comes from the religious concept of repairing or rebuilding the world in Judaism, though you’re never sure whether it is meant ironically. What is clear is the desperately topical nature of playwright Teunkie Van Der Sluijs’ debut with its culture wars, identity politics and, at the centre, a discussion about whom we choose to memorialise and why.
An aspiring MP, Steve Alexander (Jake Fairbrother), is running his election campaign on a proposed Holocaust memorial near Parliament Square in the hope to win constituency votes and rehabilitate his party against charges of antisemitism (the Labour party is never mentioned by name).
