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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

Link to Playscript

Playscript

Ref: Add MS 88898/1/170

British Library - Western Manuscripts

Unpublished Playscript

Ref: BBPA/4/165

National Theatre Archive

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