Satirical play highlights artifice and spin of contemporary poltics

Contemporary politics is a game without defined rules, where artifice and spin are the tools of choice, and where the moves are made across the boardroom table. When one side wins it almost inevitably profits only a select and

privileged few.

Dead Cats sees two characters sparring, arguing and bantering – papering over unsavoury truths with more palatable interpretations.

Gillian Lees, who is performing in the play, said: “In Dead Cats we are investigating the narratives of modern politics and the hierarchies of control that occur through the manipulation of language. That manipulation, of language, of truth, allows for the manipulation of reality and in turn, how we form our world view’.

Fellow performer Rachel Baynton said: “As recent government announcements and retractions have so clearly (if clumsily) illustrated, it’s all about the game – all about the winning - for our politicians, and they’ll redefine anything and everything to meet their ever-changing agenda.”

Dead Cats will be staged by proto-type theater at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre on May 10 and 11, 2023.

TIckets cost £13 and £11, go to www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk or call 0114 249 6000.