In the middle of the night in a storeroom in a factory in Fife, Eddie and Gary are going to change the world.
"I'm a troublemaker - I like causing trouble. It's my hobby. I think it's important tay have a hobby - keeps you out of trouble"

Gagarin Way
By Gregory Burke

14 April - 1 May, 7.30pm
BATS TheatreIn the middle of the night in a storeroom in a factory in Fife, Eddie and Gary are going to change the world.
"I'm a troublemaker - I like causing trouble. It's my hobby. I think it's important tay have a hobby - keeps you out of trouble"

Gagarin Way
By Gregory Burke

14 April - 1 May, 7.30pm
BATS TheatreWith Simon Vincent, Craig Hall, Malcolm Murray and Kevin Keys

Directed by Jean Betts

Scottish playwright Gregory Burke's explosive debut play makes its New Zealand premiere at BATS - "I wanted to write a play about the twentieth century, economics, and men; and it turned into Gagarin Way. A comedy. I didn't expect it to be a comedy but when you consider the themes which emerged while I wrote it - Marxist and Hegelian theories of history, anarchism, psychopathology, existentialism, mental illness, political terrorism, nihilism, globalisation and the crisis in masculinity - then it couldn't really be anything else."
- Gregory Burke

This highly verbal and very clever comedy, stunned audiences when it appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2001) winning a fistful of awards and excellent reviews wherever it has played.

"blistering, brilliant, crazily confident - a ton of theatrical dynamite cunningly disguised as a mere Molotov cocktail. It slips down easily and then explodes" - The Guardian

"Gregory Burke's first play cuts through our crud and shines a light on the festering world sores beneath. And it's deadly funny about the mess we are in."- edinburghguide.com

"excites, teases and provokes in equal measures" - The Stage

"slick, funny, original and violent (both in language and in deed) and above all theatrically gripping"- The Daily Telegraph

"a sharpness of social perception matched only by his boldness of expression. It is a rare, and immediately impressive combination" - Scotland on Sunday

Multi-award winning director and playwright Jean Betts (The Collective, Fold, The Misandrist, Ophelia Thinks Harder) has amassed a stunning cast featuring Simon Vincent (2003 Chapman Tripp Most Promising Male Newcomer, Fond Love and Kisses, The Platinum Collection), Craig Hall (Red Fish Blue Fish, The Strip, Mercy Peak), Kevin Keys (Fact and Fable, The Real Inspector Hound, Arcadian Nights) and Malcolm Murray (Strata, Knot A Problem, Shortland Street)

"I'm no a fucking anarchist. I dinnay like labels. No unless they're on my clothes. And I'm quite partial tay a Big Mac. Which kinday disqualifies me fay the anarchist movement."