Full casting is announced today on Synergy’s searing play The Special Relationship at Soho Theatre.
Joining previously announced Miranda Foster (The Man/Dance Nation) as Kathy and Theresa May, Ricky Fearon (Othello/Nine Night) as Curtis, and Duncan Wiseby (R4’S Dead Ringers/London Road) as John and Donald Trump are Amrita Acharia (Good Karma Hospital/Because the Night) as Anne, Moyo Akandé (Vera/Still Game) as Clodine, Yvette Boakye (Love The Sinner/Top Trumps) as Nikol and Fergal McElherron (The Ferryman/Guy Richie’s King Arthur) as Patrick and Boris Johnson.
Esther Baker will direct Hassan Abdulrazzak’s timely new play, a dark and biting satire which exposes the complex and heart-breaking stories behind the deportations of ex-prisoners from the US.
A grain of cocaine, a digit on a breathalyser, a forged cheque, a DEA sting or murder one?
Caught in the transatlantic tango between Trump and May and proudly presented by a gun-toting Immigration officer, these are verbatim stories of double punishment and separation.
Gripping accounts of justice and separation brought to vivid dramatic life in a fast-paced and theatrically daring production using savage comedy, surreal metaphor and verbatim testimony from those who ended up on the wrong side of the criminal justice system.
Developed from interviews with ex-prisoners and experts in immigration and criminal law, the award-winning playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak carves a rich dramatic narrative and uncovers vital questions around identity and place as he gets behind the political rhetoric of those caught up in the quagmire of immigration detention and deportation.
