Any Means Necessary

by Kefi Chadwick

Overview

They don't care about the truth or changing anything. They just want to discredit us. Bury us under a load of insinuation and then shut us up by paying us off. I can't bear to bleed out my pain and it not mean anything.

When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. Dave soon becomes central to her life and her activist friends. But is he who he appears to be?

An emotionally compelling drama that explores love, betrayal, secrets and lies and exposes the brutality of a police policy that used any means necessary to undermine political protest.

Based on a true story, Any Means Necessary centres on the events surrounding a group of environmental activists and the 2011 court case that charged them with trespass at nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station.

This real-life event set in Nottingham uncovered a national scandal that has led to a full police apology and an admission that their officers' behaviour was an abuse of the women's human rights. A major public inquiry begins in January 2016 and is expected to run for 3 years.

This play was published to coincide with the world premiere of the play at Nottingham Playhouse on 5 February 2016.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350002319
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/15/2016
Series:	Modern Plays
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	321 KB

About the Author

Award-winning writer Kefi Chadwick's previous full-length plays include The Deal (Nightingale Theatre, New Writing South), Below Zero (London and regional tour, Proteus Theatre), The Wedding Present (regional tour, Proteus Theatre), Clamshell Boy (London and regional tour, Intrepid Theatre) and Mathematics of the Heart (Brighton Fringe Festival and Theatre503, London). Her short film Cregan was screened in competition internationally, winning second prize at Waterford Film Festival and the New York Film Festival Audience Choice. It was also selected by BBC Film Network. Her prose works have been published in the UK and USA, and appeared on BBC Radio 4.
Kefi Chadwick is a multi-award-winning writer. Her play Mathematics of the Heart won Best New Play at Brighton Festival in 2011 and went on to a sell-out run at Theatre503, London, in 2012. Her two short plays SexLife and La Petite Mort played at Latitude Festival and in Edinburgh in 2012 and 2013. She created a bespoke piece of theatre for Latitude in 2013 that then went on to be developed by the Arts Council and resulted an interactive show called How Was It For You?, which premiered at Brighton Dome in 2015. She has also contributed to Paines Plough's 'Come To Where I'm From' programme. Her first short film, Cregan, won at Waterford Film Festival and screened nationally and internationally. Her second, Girlpower, won Best Comedy Short at Aesthetica Film Festival 2014 and was also screened nationally and internationally. Her most recent short, SexLife, has screened at 15 Oscar and BAFTA-accredited festivals, including Tribeca in the USA and Encounters in the UK. She is currently developing her first feature film with Ignition films. She has written for River City for BBC Scotland and is developing further TV projects with Lovely Day, Kudos, Greenacre Films, and Noho Film and TV. She was on the Royal Court Writers' programme and is currently one of the 18 writers on iwrite, a Creative England initiative that is developing for the screen the most interesting emerging voices from across the UK.