These Premises are Alarmed - PORNOGRAPHY

On Sale 07 November 2011

By Simon Stephens

It’s July 2005 and London feels like the centre of the world. Big events are happening and everyone is talking about them – Live 8, G8, the triumph of the 2012 Olympics bid for London. In schools, offices, streets, shops, parks and homes – the air is electric with promise and possibility. You can feel the sense of anticipation. In less than an hour in Central London, everything will change …

It’s a lonely trek towards oblivion on the London Underground made by a young man with ice in his heart and a pack of explosives in his rucksack. This stark and shattering play follows seven different characters who share little besides their loneliness, over the first seven days of July from Live 8 through the 2012 Olympics announcement and the ensuing terror attacks in the heart of London.

A state-of-the-nation play in the fullest sense, Pornography captures Britain as it crashes from the euphoria and promise of the 2012 Olympics announcement into the devastation of the 7/7 terrorist attacks. Simon Stephens is one of Britain’s most brilliant new playwrights.

One city, one day, seven stories. (And of course it couldn’t happen here…)


Director: Daniel Clarke
Composer: Jason Sweeney
Lighting Designer: Mark Pennington
Designer: Wendy Todd
Cast: Matthew Crook, Carmel Johnson, Ansuya Nathan