Frack Off: a comedy about ale and shale

Frack Off
a modern farce in the style of commedia, withmasks and lazzi and songs and lunacy
Godzilla Inc has been granted permission to Frack for Shale Gas under the Village of Maybe-in-Eden. The Village successfully blockades itself and the police, unable to enforce the new lax drilling rights, sends in an informer / agent provocateur under an assumed identity: cborrowing the name of one of a missing pair of twins who came from the village….

The informer is welcomed in by the village by his supposed Granny, and attempts to let in the drilling machinery, but then, caught in the act, he is unmasked, as the “real” twin appears out of the blue…..who is really who and where do our sympathies and allegiances lie? Music will be played, little revolutions carried out, and an awful of lot of dirty linen will be washed in public

To acknowledge both local concerns and the Nobel Laureate Dario Fo’s 91st year, this committed comedy cocktail puts farce to the fore and gets down and dirty in the face of fracking and felony, duty and disguise, and capitalism and comradeship.