Remember when a group of privately educated anarchists bombed the home of the secretary of state for employment? Perhaps you don’t, but if you’re one of the thousands who saw This House on stage or on livescreen, you will know that the playwright James Graham has a knack for diving into our collective political memory and retrieving the absurd and the inexplicably forgotten.
In The Angry Brigade, Graham returns to the 1970s, shifting his focus to the political counterculture and to a low-level bombing campaign by Britain’s first urban guerrillas. This is a play of mirror images. In the first half we watch four young police officers hunt down the self-styled Angry Brigade, a previously unknown group who have just claimed responsibility for a