Maydays / David Edgar.

70 p. ; 21 cm.

Using major political world events as a backdrop to the main action, Edgar traces the effect of the political spectrum on several individuals, in particular Martin Glass, from a middle-class family and minor public school, who starts out as an eager supporter of CND anxious to join a communist-based party, who achieves his aim, but, becoming disillusioned changes tack and veers to the hard-right until, confronting the fervour of a group of anti-nuclear women demonstrators, he realizes his moral inadequacy. In parallel is Lermontov, a disaffected Russian Army officer who, disillusioned by service in HUngary, is imprisoned for insubordination, defects to the West, but on attending a ceremony to receive an award for his defection, he is suddenly shamed as he remembers the initial ideals of the Russian Revolution and refuses the award.

Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

0413541800

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D E23ma 1983