Play for Tomorrow

- Season 1

(1982)

A play by Caryl Churchill, depicting the start of the 21st century. With prisoners controlled by the state and the government threatening to plunge the country into shutdown over fears of a nuclear attack, decisions need to be made.

New Year's Eve 1999, and Europe is a single army at war. Sam Howard visits his daughter in prison, and reflects on two prior New Year's celebrations involving her: one when she was a child, and one where he encouraged her to be a radical.

Coanwood Cricket Club hold their selection committee for the weekend's match, paranoid that they're being kept under surveillance. Is the committee a front for something more sinister, and can everyone be trusted?

1999, and technology is being developed by keeping the populace terrified of the threat of nuclear war. For one family, a holiday could be the break they need - even if said holiday is a time of hard manual labour.

The third and final play set in 1999, this edition features a young society that experiences life via electronic lenses, and has learned to live with the threat of nuclear war- until they start to develop a fixation with the fears of 1981.

In March 2016, prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college, a struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.