Explicit Polaroid 8.05.14

Research. https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/EDG/resume/polaroids/index.html

 Nick was in prison for 15 years because of a politically motivated murder attempt. Free at last, he feels like a stranger in a strange land. Helen, his ex-lover and partner in revolution, is a member of the city council and deals with prosaic matters like street lights and bus schedules. She wants nothing to do with Nick and refuses to take him in. On his journey through the big city jungle, Nick meets the go-go dancer, Nadja, and her two gay friends Tim and Victor.

All three are part of the new apolitical fun generation whose search for the meaning of life means indulging in trash culture, drugs, the fashion and piercing lifestyle and a desperate/aggressive sexuality. Nick is completely bewildered and disorientated as his strict Marxism is at odds with the modern Britain of retail and consumption and by the reigning fun generation‘s lack of interest in “true values”.

Confronted by his erstwhile victim, Jonathan, Nick realises that his old enemy, a global money player, is no longer a worthy adversary...

The images Ravenhill uses to depict social reality are garish and provocative, but genuine. He tantalises us with snapshots of a rapidly changing world in which the old views of society have long since lost their validity. Political utopias and lifestyles collide with the trash and fun culture of modern day Britain and merge disastrously in an abyss of capriciousness.

Here is some research I have found out about the play I am doing. We worked on script today rehearsing and tweaking stuff that needs work on we then perfomed it. My feedback was to really connect to my inner monologue that my world has now been turnt upside down and I have been reminded of all the damage I had caused in the past back to haunt me.