Smash

He leaves his bride on their wedding day because he fears his passion for her will get in the way of his plans to overthrow the British government

Sidney vanishes "underground" - disguises himself as a common laborer called "Mengels" - and infiltrates Alton College, a girls' school where well-bred young women are "fitted and fatted to be put on the marriage market"

His plan: Take over the school and plant the seed of radical Socialism into the fertile brains of the future consorts of cabinet ministers and kings. What he doesn't plan on is the presence of one Agatha Wylie, a sixth-form rabble-rouser

Agatha falls hopelessly in love with both Sidney and his politics, and just happens to be his deserted wife's cousin

Love triangles, mistaken identities, Marx, Engels, pistols and the proletariat jostle for position in this adaptation of Shaw's last comic novel, written in 1883

"Smash is witty, cunning, intelligent, and skillful. It is also generous, something cleverness isn't always. Like Tom Stoppard, the author makes you the audience feel just as clever as he. Brillliant writing" - Seattle Weekly