A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.
Protection is a behind-the-scenes look at a team of social workers and their 'clients' in Britain's most misunderstood public service. Angela breaks the rules to get things done - her way. Shirley misses the old days, when protection came without a price. Their manager, Gordon, is screwing Angela whilst busy claiming on expenses. And for newcomer Grace, it's a struggle simply not to piss anyone off.
Fin Kennedy's play was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in 2003.
'Real excitement lies in discovering a young writer who is more concerned with major political issues than minor domestic upsets' - Guardian
'Taut, attention-grabbing new drama... At a point when it seems easier for headlines to demonise the young and disaffected rather than focus on the cycles of abuse and betrayal that create them, Protection races the audience through a sparky evocation of individuals tackling some of the greatest problems facing Tony Blair's Britain' - Evening Standard
Show moreA tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.
Protection is a behind-the-scenes look at a team of social workers and their 'clients' in Britain's most misunderstood public service. Angela breaks the rules to get things done - her way. Shirley misses the old days, when protection came without a price. Their manager, Gordon, is screwing Angela whilst busy claiming on expenses. And for newcomer Grace, it's a struggle simply not to piss anyone off.
Fin Kennedy's play was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in 2003.
'Real excitement lies in discovering a young writer who is more concerned with major political issues than minor domestic upsets' - Guardian
'Taut, attention-grabbing new drama... At a point when it seems easier for headlines to demonise the young and disaffected rather than focus on the cycles of abuse and betrayal that create them, Protection races the audience through a sparky evocation of individuals tackling some of the greatest problems facing Tony Blair's Britain' - Evening Standard
Show more"Protection" premiered at the Soho Theatre, London in July 2003 directed by Abigail Morris, their artistic director.
Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright whose plays are
regularly produced in the UK and abroad. He also teaches, blogs,
campaigns, fundraises and dramaturgs other writers – with a
particular focus on young people's projects in London's East End.
Since November 2013, he has been Artistic Director of touring
theatre company Tamasha.
He is a graduate of the MA Writing for Performance programme at
Goldsmiths College, London. His first play Protection was
produced at Soho Theatre in 2003, where he was also Pearson
writer-in-residence.
His second play How To Disappear Completely and Never Be
Found won the 38th Arts Council John Whiting Award, and was
produced at Sheffield Crucible in 2007. It has since been produced
in London, America and Australia and become a firm favourite with
student and amateur performance groups. It is among Nick Hern
Books' most licensed plays.
Fin's first two plays for teenagers, Locked
In and We Are Shadows were produced by Half Moon
Young People's Theatre in 2006 and 2008 and toured nationally, the
first in a long track record of writing for young people.
Since 2007 Fin has been writer-in-residence at Mulberry School for
Girls in Tower Hamlets, where he co-founded Mulberry Theatre
Company, for whom he has written seven plays. Mehndi
Night (2007), Stolen Secrets (2008), and The
Unravelling (2009) all premiered at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe, while The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping premiered
at Southwark Playhouse in 2010. All are published by Nick Hern
Books in The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other
plays.
His fifth play for Mulberry School, The Dream Collector, was the
inaugural production in Mulberry's new onsite theatre in October
2013, while the sixth, The Domino Effect, premiered at the
2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Both are published in The Domino
Effect and other plays for teenagers.
Mulberry Theatre Company made history in 2009 when they were
awarded a Scotsman Fringe First for The Unravelling, the first
time a British state school has ever received one. He also writes
for radio and has had three Afternoon Plays broadcast on BBC Radio
4 including The Good Listener, a returning series set inside
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
As well as writing plays, Fin also has many years of experience
teaching playwriting. Whilst Associate Artist at Tamasha he founded
Schoolwrights, the UK's first playwrights-in-schools training
scheme. As Artistic Director, he has launched Tamasha Playwrights,
a new agency of playwrights-for-hire, offering diverse role models
for young people's projects in inner-city schools.
He writes a widely-read theatre industry blog at
www.finkennedy.blogspot.co.uk, is an occasional contributor to The
Guardian and The Stage and a visiting tutor on the
MA Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins.
'Real excitement lies in discovering a young writer who is more
concerned with major political issues than minor domestic
upsets'
*Guardian*
'Taut, attention-grabbing new drama... At a point when it seems
easier for headlines to demonise the young and disaffected rather
than focus on the cycles of abuse and betrayal that create them,
Protection races the audience through a sparky evocation of
individuals tackling some of the greatest problems facing Tony
Blair's Britain'
*Evening Standard*
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