SATURDAY, 8 AUGUST 2015
The Beanfield – TheSpace on the Mile, Edinburgh
[seen 08/08/15]
It’s far too early in the day to declare Breach Theatre’s The Beanfield“The Most Important Piece of Political Theatre on The Fringe” but, by God it’s tempting.
The form of the piece is deceptively simple. The company – recent graduates of Warwick University – set out to create a “reconstruction” of “The Battle of the Beanfield” in which armed members of British police force attacked a peaceful convoy of travellers on their way to the Summer Solstice festival at Stonehenge. (“Battle” is a misnomer, but I can’t think of the pithy expression for and the unrestrained violent charging by armed thugs at peaceful people minding their own business.)
It’s far too early in the day to declare Breach Theatre’s The Beanfield“The Most Important Piece of Political Theatre on The Fringe” but, by God it’s tempting.
The form of the piece is deceptively simple. The company – recent graduates of Warwick University – set out to create a “reconstruction” of “The Battle of the Beanfield” in which armed members of British police force attacked a peaceful convoy of travellers on their way to the Summer Solstice festival at Stonehenge. (“Battle” is a misnomer, but I can’t think of the pithy expression for and the unrestrained violent charging by armed thugs at peaceful people minding their own business.)
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