Etcetera, LondonWhat kind of future London do we see? Francis Beckett, a political journalist and periodic playwright, has devised one in which policing is privatised, hospitals are reserved for rich foreigners and the streets are filled with predatory beggars. As a dystopian satire in the tradition of 1984 or A Clockwork Orange, his play has a graphic vividness and falls down only when it seeks to become a rede…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PM on March 12, 2012