SUS Trailer


SUS 2010 Tour Dates

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre                    28 & 29 April

Curve, Leicester                                  04 May – 08 May

The Broadway Barking                                14 & 15 May

South Hill Park Bracknell                            20 & 21 May

Birmingham Repertory Theatre                     25 – 29 May

Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Studio,
Ipswich                                                    01 & 02 June

The Martin Harris Centre,
Manchester                                                     04 June

Young Vic Theatre, London                        08 - 26 June



































































eclipse theatre is funded by Arts Council England.
An eclipse theatre/Young Vic co-production


SUS
BY BARRIE KEEFFE


CAST:

SIMON ARMSTRONG

CLINT DYER

LAURENCE SPELLMAN

DIRECTOR: GBOLAHAN OBISESAN, DESIGNER: CHLOE LAMFORD,
LIGHTING DESIGN: ANNA WATSON,
SOUND DESIGN DONATO WHARTON

Set on the eve of the Thatcher victory in 1979, this revival of Barrie Keeffe’s classic coincides with the upcoming general election of 2010.


The sus laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone – purely on suspicion.

Election night 1979. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win. Delroy is brought in ‘on suspicion’. The interrogation takes all night. The country wakes up to a new Conservative government.

Sus is a powerful and politicised cry against the still-current threat of institutional racism. Keeffe pulls no punches with his depiction of a corrupt world which looks all too familiar today.

‘Police forces face threat of racist label over stop and searches’
Guardian March 2010.

What’s changed?