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Initiate, The

  • Alexandra Wood
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9781848424333

A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for a way to belong.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Elementary School / Primary

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Edinburgh Fringe First Award (2014)
A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for a way to belong.

When a British couple are seized by Somali pirates, an East London taxi driver decides to rescue them. Meeting disbelief with determination, he dismisses the fears of his wife and flies out to negotiate their release.

Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind and the bravado of the defiant men he once called brothers.

Alexandra Wood's play The Initiate premiered at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production by Paines Plough, where it won a Fringe First Award, before touring.

REVIEWS:

"A carefully wrought work which cleverly explores its themes… an unsettling, forthright piece of writing that will leave you thinking."

 Time Out

"Wonderfully slippery and always intelligent… offers much to enjoy in its thriller-like structure."

 The Guardian

Premiere Production: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2014.
  • Casting: 2M, 1F

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