Sometime in the 21st Century, the changes in climate have left riot-torn England dissolving into the sea. Hadrian's Wall is a 38-mile wide waterway. The Archers Omnibus edition is still playing, but tobacco is a class A drug, and Barking has been flooded to save more salubrious postcodes.
In Tinderbox, a new play by Lucy Kirkwood premiering at the Bush Theatre, London, a Scottish artist, Perchik, swims Hadrian's Channel and seeks refuge in the Bradford butcher's shop of Saul Everard and his wife Vanessa. A bloodthirsty English patriot, Saul keeps the meat supply going by feeding his assistants into a cement mixer. In the style of Joe Orton's black comedies, Kirkwood's satirical farce gives a dystopian view of post-climate change English society. Photo: Tristram Kenton
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