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Any Means Necessary

Kefi Chadwick

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Description for Any Means Necessary Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 98.
They don’t care about the truth or changing anything. They just want to discredit us. Bury us under a load of insinuation and then shut us up by paying us off. I can’t bear to bleed out my pain and it not mean anything. When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. Dave soon becomes central to her life and her activist friends. But is he who he appears to be? An emotionally compelling drama that explores love, betrayal, secrets and lies and exposes the brutality of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Series

Modern Plays

Condition

New

Number of Pages

112

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781350002296

SKU

V9781350002296

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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

Ref

99-5

About Kefi Chadwick

Award-winning writer Kefi Chadwick's previous full-length plays include The Deal (Nightingale Theatre, New Writing South), Below Zero (London and regional tour, Proteus Theatre), The Wedding Present (regional tour, Proteus Theatre), Clamshell Boy (London and regional tour, Intrepid Theatre) and Mathematics of the Heart (Brighton Fringe Festival and Theatre503, London). Her short film Cregan was screened in competition internationally, winning ... Read more

Reviews for Any Means Necessary

A poignant and tender story . . . as funny as it was moving
Sunday Times on "Mathematics of the Heart"
[Achieves] a balance between brittle humour and broody thoughtfulness
The Times on "Mathematics of the Heart"
Brims with vitality and acuity, resulting in a pleasing and pertinent play about the nature of rivalry and ... Read morerelationships
Stage on "Mathematics of the Heart"
The case of police spies forming sexual relationships with political activists has been so well documented . . . that it is fair to ask what a dramatist can add. In the case of Kefi Chadwick, who has written this fascinating play, she brings a vivid picture of the mutual destructiveness of fraudulent affairs, but also an awareness that collective action can lead to public change. [...] The virtue of the play is that it links private and public worlds. Through the story of Mel and Dave, it explores the difficulty of faking a long-term relationship without a genuine sense of entanglement. [...] what is heartening about Chadwick's play is that it reminds you of past wrongs while showing that women have the power to take present action.
Guardian
bold and insightful . . . Chadwick's play remains powerful, political stuff . . . a true-life horror story in which individuals count for nothing and everyone is expendable.
Stage
Kefi Chadwick's text is excellent . . . Anyone hoping for a one-sided evening of left-wing agitprop would have trudged home disappointed. It is altogether more complex and interesting than that. And it manages to end on an . . . optimistic note.
Nottingham Post
Any Means Necessary is a fascinating play that looks at events where the audience are likely to know the ending and the corrupt motivations of the police. Yet we still sit as onlookers breathlessly observing the lies unfolding and they are told with such conviction that our sympathies find it difficult to know who to side with.
Big Issue
Chadwick's play seeks to demonstrate the scale of the betrayal of ordinary women by a corrupt police institution. . . . The dynamics of the protesters ring true, the warmth of their friendships compensating for some occasional artificial speechifying . . . offers an important, emotive call for action by demonstrating the scale of the betrayal perpetuated on activists and exposing the belligerent callousness of the police towards those affected. It painstakingly captures the insidiousness of a lie that sullies everything it touches and destroys the ability to trust. . . . [Any Means Necessary] establishes a platform which, one hopes, will enable many more victims to speak about their experiences and seek justice, and, crucially, prevent this happening again.
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