Your friends…how long have you known them? Or your partner? Three? Four years? Do you tell them your innermost thoughts, your deepest secrets? Do you know theirs?
Now imagine that everything they have ever told you is a lie.
“Once you’ve opened the door to an impossible truth, everything else becomes unstable. What’s real and what isn’t becomes impossible to tell.”
When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. Before long, Dave becomes central to her life and her activist friends. But is he too good to be true?
Inspired by real-life events, Any Means Necessary is a gripping new play that focuses on the human story at the heart of a national scandal.
When an undercover police officer who had been living amongst an activist community in Nottingham was exposed in 2011, it lifted the lid on a whole series of covert policing operations dating back decades. Revelations of women co-erced into relationships with these officers has resulted in a public apology from the Met Police and an admission that their behaviour was an abuse of the women’s human rights. A major public inquiry begins in 2016 and is expected to run for 3 years.
On for a strictly limited run at Nottingham Playhouse, Any Means Necessary is a compelling drama exploring love, betrayal, secrets and lies and exposing the emotional brutality of a police policy that used any means necessary to undermine political protest.
A new commission, written by Kefi Chadwick and directed by Nottingham Playhouse Artistic Director Giles Croft.
Friday 5 February – Saturday 20 February 2016
Main House – Tickets: £10.50 – £28.50
Age Guidance: 14+ (contains strong language)
Tickets available here.
There are also a series of free talks relating to the play and its content:
Free Talks
Pre-Show Talk with John Hess, Helen Steel and Bruce Kent
Thursday 11 February at 6pm
Post-Show Discussion with director Giles Croft and members of the cast
Thursday 11 February
How To Confirm A Cop: The experience of the Undercover Research Group
Saturday 13 February at 6:30pm
Pre-Show Talk with writer Kefi Chadwick and activist Merrick Badger
Wednesday 17 February at 6:30pm
