📱 eBook en inglés The New Real

Its the 2000s. Were in a faraway country. Rachel, a stellar American political strategist, and Caro, her British data expert, have been hired to fight a ferocious election, in a place where its hard to tell whats real and whats fake.

They think theyre here to teach the Eastern Europeans how to do democracy, but it turns out theyre here to learn. And when Rachels former political partner turns up on the rival side, their showdown threatens to change global politics, from Warsaw to Wisconsin. Forever.

The New Real is David Edgars epic, panoramic play about how the political fault-line was redrawn. It is an origin story, for right now. It was first performed in 2024 by the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Headlong at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Holly Race Roughan.

Edgars writing has a vigour, a swagger, a taut, tense texture that portrays men and women in the white heat of ambition, duplicity, conscience and tortured idealismSunday Times

There is no more incisive commentator on politics currently working in British theatreThe Times