Synopsis
The Chair Plays - Have I None & The Under Room & Chair
Published by Methuen
Faced with ecological disaster and economic chaos, governments have become authoritarian and repressive
Domestic family life struggles to survive in a world of fleeing refugees, mass suicides, ruined and deserted suburbs, and soldiers patrolling the streets
Authority decrees even the exact placing of furniture in rooms
There is a knock at the door, but it is not the secret police - it is something even more disturbing
In this broken world sheer human goodness and vision asserts itself in stubborn and radiant ways
A master dramatist creates a range of extraordinary characters, vivid situations and radical theatrical devices to stage the central problem of modern life