As the four-star hit production heads into its final weeks, check out the new trailer for Lunatic 19s – A Deportational Road Trip, Tegan McLeod’s drama set in Trump’s America, then book your tickets.
McLeod’s first full length play to be staged in the UK, Lunatic 19s runs until 3 August 2019 at the Finborough Theatre.
Recovering from a serious car crash, Gracie, an undocumented Latina migrant worker from Kentucky, is tracked down to her hospital bed by immigration enforcement officer Alec. Dragged from hospital, she is chained and forced into a van to begin the long journey to deportation.
Lunatic 19s tells a human story from the heart of the current debate about migration and refugees, while reveling in the brutal surrealism of jailer and prisoner bound together on a road trip to exile and new beginnings.
Gabriela Garcia and Devon Anderson in Lunatic 19s (Image: Marian Medic)
The two-hander features Gabriela Garcia (West Side Story, Strictly Ballroom, In The Heights) as Gracie, with Devon Anderson (EastEnders, Hollyoaks) as Alec. Jonathan Martin directs Lunatic 19s, with design by Carla Goodman, lighting by Kevin Treacy and sound by Juan Ernesto Diaz.
Playwright McLeod is a native of Iowa City, who moved to the UK, studied English Literature at Oxford and acted with the National Youth Theatre. Her first play, Never Such Rain, which was written when she was just 18, was a runner-up in the Oxford New Writer’s Festival. Lunatic 19s was a runner-up in for the prestigious Papatango Prize.
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