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Remember the Exodus? Bad Tuesday. London went mad….That day, hope collapsed….people turned into animals. Somebody had to do something.
It’s 2072 and following a cataclysmic economic and social decline, the UK has been abandoned by its inhabitants in a mass exodus.
Almost everyone got out. The only people left were society’s outcasts – the criminals, the mentally ill, the unwanted children.
In a disused office somewhere in the ghost city of London lives a group of twenty young people.
They were all children in care. Either abandoned or orphaned, nobody loved them enough to take them on a plane and get them out of the country. Now they live in their own little society – a society that has survived, thanks to the organisational and political skill of their charismatic leader, a sixteen year old who calls himself “daddy”.
Daddy is a ruthless operator, whose rule is marked by superstition, violence and fear.
This is the story of the rebellion that topples him.
The Red Helicopter has been written by Robin French in response to workshops with the Young Friend of the Almeida LAB participants aged 15 - 22, who explored the Almeida Theatre's season of plays from Judgment Day through to Ruined to find the resonances and relevance to their own lives.
Friday 6 August 7.30pm
Saturday 7 August 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Running time: 1 hour 5 minutes. No interval.