About the Project
If survival meant complicity with a brutal regime, what would you risk for love?
May’s an idealist. She’s fighting for a better world. When the old regime finally falls, May’s devotion to the cause is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer. But as the faces of the enemy pass before her unflinching lens, will they shake May’s belief in the brave new world she helped create?
Set in the near future in a country under the rule of a repressive military regime, S-27 is ‘a blistering account of the things that we will do to save our own skins, and the way the human heart betrays us’ (Guardian ★★★★). The play draws its inspiration from the stories of individuals working and imprisoned in Cambodia’s S-21 prison under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, as well as the playwright’s own family’s experiences under Nazi occupation and Stalinism in Poland.
S-27 won the Iceandfire/Amnesty International Protect the Human Playwriting competition and previous productions have had successful runs in the UK, Canada and Australia. Accolades include being chosen as a Critics’ Choice in both Time Out London and Time Out Sydney.
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Guardian
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Time Out London
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Sunday Express
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What’s on Stage
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Broadway Baby
Content warnings: Depictions of asphyxiation, death, sexual assault, torture and violence. Mentions of gun violence and cruelty to animals.
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