An Acre and Change

Aug 2010
Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Directed by Simon Gwynn, Written by Edward Neville

A speculative fiction that encourages people to take a fresh perspective on the Troubles of Northern Ireland by taking the conflict and transplanting it to a hypothetical military-occupied ‘French Anglia’. When young Henry Wright and Alice Brown find themselves surrounded by an eerily familiar conflict, they are forced by a catastrophic loss to reconsider the truth of their lives. Controversial, challenging, plot-driven and loaded with tension throughout, strange and familiar at the same time, ‘An Acre and Change’ deals with themes and prejudices that drive the characters through escalating tension and asks: what, if anything, is worth killing over?