“YOU WANT ARROGANCE? GREED? STUPIDITY? LOOK AROUND.”

“Burke’s bitterly funny drama is a ton of theatrical dynamite cunningly disguised as a mere Molotov cocktail. It slips down easily and then explodes. It ransacks20th-century political philosophies and ideologies with assurance and poses big questions: can the individual act have greater political symbolism? Is political violence ever justified? What is the difference between revolution and murder and how can you rise above apathy in a world where there is nothing left to believe in?”- Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

The location is a former mining town in Fife, Scotland, an area once a hotbed of Socialist politics. Now, in 2001, a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union and four years into Blair’s New Labour, two disgruntled computer factoryworkers decide to kidnap a visiting executive to make a political point. But things do not go according to plan…

Gagarin Way is Gregory Burke’s first play and was a hit around the world at the beginning of the millennium. It is a funny and frightening “heist gone wrong” story with even more relevance today in a world in which terrorism and the crisis of Capitalism is at the forefront of the news.