Hard Time Pressure
By Michael McMillan
Year staged: 1980
Theatre Company: Royal Court Theatre
Staged in: Royal Court Theatre
Cast Size: 20
Synopsis
Grappling with unemployment, police brutality, the ‘SUS’ laws, identity and sexual politics 18 year old Levi, his young brother and their friends attend the local youth club. Here conflicts play out, particularly with the father of a white girl who believes his daughter was molested and a black officer who plants evidence, believing that putting the boys through the same hard pressure he endured on coming to the UK is for their own good. Meanwhile the youth workers try to hold the ring.
Additional Materials
Unpublished Playscript
Ref: BBPA/4/165
National Theatre Archive