3 Hours
04-Feb-2009
09-Aug-2009
Matinees: 2pm
Evenings: 8.45pm
Richard Bean
Nicholas Hytner
Neil Austin
John Leonard
National Theatre
Jamie Beamish, Paul Chequer, Olivia Colman, Michelle Terry, Rudi Dharmalingam, Sacha Dhawan, Trevor Laird, Elliot Levey, Aaron Neil, Fred Ridgeway, Sophie Stanton, Philip Arditti, Hasina Haque, Tony Jayawardena, Siobhan McSweeney, Neet Mohan, Sophia Nomvete, Daniel Poyser, Claire Prempeh, Avin Shah, David Verrey, Harvey Virdi
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A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration is anything but new.
Written with scurrilous bravura, Richard Bean's great sweep of a comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers amid cutters' mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists across four tempestuous centuries.