The Unthinkable

A hard-hitting play about New Labour from the author of World Music, published alongside the premiere at the Sheffield Crucible in October 2004. The mid-80s. Four bright Oxford students set up a radical group which is comandeered by the Labour Party to become an alternative think-tank. As the years go by, its initially idealistic members start pursuing their own goals. One joins the World Bank, one makes a fortune as an Internet pioneer; one becomes an MP ... One, always the most uncompromising, goes to help the Palestinian cause.