Magnificence
Magnificence Author: Howard Brenton
First Performance: 1973, London
Published: 1973
Genre: Pol. drama in 8 scenes
Setting: Bare room, street, and living room, London, 1970s; college garden and river, Cambridge, 1970s
Cast: 9m, 2f
Three young men, Will, Jed, and Cliff, and two young women, Mary and Veronica, break into an unoccupied building to squat there. While Will suggests using vaguely anarchic slogans like ‘Seize the weapons of happiness’, the more hard-headed Veronica insists that they must draw attention to the homeless in London. An Old Man suddenly appears from a pile of newspapers in the corner. Slaughter the Bailiff breaks in to evict the squatters. In the ensuing mêlée, Mary, who is pregnant, gets kicked, and she loses her baby. Jed, Mary's husband, is imprisoned and comes out seeking revenge....
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