Hope

'We live in an age of cuts. We are a working-class town, that''s our strength – and in the current climate, our weakness.'An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England ''86.Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council, are about to find out.Jack Thorne's play Hope premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2014.