Hope

We live in an age of cuts. We are a working-class town, that's our strength - and in the current climate, our weakness.'An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86.Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council, are about to find out.Jack Thorne's play Hope premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2014. [Publisher's text]

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