18 - 21 July 2018

 

PLOS present

Pravda - A Fleet Street Comedy

By David Hare and Howard Brenton

Directed by Nigel Fullerton 

 

Scheming media moguls. A UK government at war with Brussels. Newspapers run like propaganda pamphlets. That's right - it's the 1980s!

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Meet Lambert Le Roux, a South African businessman hell bent on acquiring the British press from the foppish, upper-class elite. It's the revolution Fleet Street hasn't been waiting for. But can the British people trust a millionaire media man from the Southern Hemisphere with the ownership of their beloved papers?  The answer isn't exactly front page news.

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This scorching satire, originally starring Anthony Hopkins and Bill Nighy, was first performed at the National Theatre and won the 1985 London Standard Best Play Award.