Hyperlynx - (Oberon Modern Plays) by John McGrath (Paperback)

About the Book

A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?

Book Synopsis

A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?
Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.
Hyperlynx was the winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2002

Review Quotes

"A short, sharp piece of quite deadly sophistication about the power of the multinationals. Well done, that man." --John Peter, Sunday Times

About the Author

John McGrath died in 2002, after a long career of making political theatre. The monologue Hyperlynx was written shortly before his death, around the time of the anti-capitlist demonstrations in Genoa. It will be performed at the Pleasance Dome as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2002.