Politics. Power. Protest. Some groups really put you under pressure.

Fran and Tara. Two students who are properly into their politics. It’s their passion. But it’s sort of hard to pursue that passion when the political societies at university are too focussed on in-fighting. So they’ve got an idea. It’s a good one. They’re going to start their own society. Their own
movement. And you know what, it does pretty well. To start, at least. But the more influence they get on campus, the harder they find it to stick to their original principles.

They might not be in Westminster, but they soon discover that university politics can be just as vicious.

Set against the shifting political backdrop of the 2010s, ‘Pressure Points’ is a play exploring youth activism and whether or not the political ideals we have when we’re young can work in the real world.

Jack Stanley is a playwright whose full first full-length play ‘Catastrophists’ debuted at the White Bear Theatre in August 2017. He’s had work performed at Chichester Festival Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and HighTide Festival, and has been part of Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab.

Nadia Papachronopoulou, in 2017 was the Resident Director on Simon Callow’s production of The Philanthropist in London’s West End for 7 months and has just worked at Regents Park Theatre as an assistant director to Tim Sheader. She has directed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Tricycle and Charing Cross Theatre amongst others. She was the emerging director at National Theatre Wales as well as resident director at the Orange Tree Theatre.

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