“If this town gave out a collective breath of exhaustion, buildings would shake across the whole of England”
Two best mates. One HUGE party. Luton pinned by austerity. An evening of noughties bangers and shots of shitty gin mixed with the chaos of violence. A night to remember!
Winners of the 2022 Untapped Award, Chalk Line presents The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return.
Packed with swagger, it hurls at a rapid pace with linguistic vigour and unfolds in real time. It’s a tapestry of violence and joy parading through Luton.
WINNER OF BEST NEW WRITING –
BESTIES AWARDS – FEST & SKINNY MAGAZINE
WINNER OF
BEST INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE – OLATUNJI AYOFE – THEATRE WEEKLY
A masterclass in storytelling
Unfolds like an Urban epic
Olatunji Ayofe
Amaia Naima Aguinaga
Elan Butler
Unfolds like an urban epic: its small cast of characters freewheeling through streets and council estates, the fizzing freedom of youth caught against the suffocating constraints of British austerity...it all feels irresistible
A masterclass in storytelling
Playwright Sam Edmunds gives us a teens’-eye view of the town in the 00s with this arresting account of a house party...an eloquent assessment of how fear can result in fury"
Think Steven Berkoff’s East crossed with a grimy, anti-lyrical Under Milkwood and you have something of the flavour of this odyssey into the underbelly of Luton. Writer Sam Edmunds sees the life burning furiously inside of them.
Edmunds paints a vivid picture of the limiting factors on the lives of working-class men, the grinding sense of debt that is passed down from generation to generation, the violence they encounter and have to live with on the street..it's exhilaratin
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Photos by Harry Elletson
