Minerva, Chichester
Anne Reid and James Bolam star in Beaton’s dark comedy about fracking that becomes an outright plea for direct action
Alistair Beaton’s forte is topical satire. His most recent piece, The Accidental Leader, pre-empted events by showing the shadow cabinet rebelling against Jeremy Corbyn. Now he takes on the topic of fracking (helpfully defined in the programme as “a process of mechanically liberating oil or gas direct from shale”), which has prompted angry protest, not least in rural Sussex. The first thing to say is that the play is very funny, even if it gives short shrift to the pro-fracking argument.
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Source: Guardian Environment