THE NEW WORLD ORDER
(2007 & 2011)
Keeping the world clean for democracy
THE NEW WORLD ORDER, Hydrocracker's most successful and overtly political site-specific work, was an ambitious amalgamation of five of Harold Pinter's plays - One for the Road, The New World Order, Precisely, Mountain Language and Press Conference.
The production took the audience on a journey - literally and metaphorically - from a press conference with the Minister of Culture in a plush debating chamber and then down into the cells and corridors of the basement, where the functionaries of the new world order “keep the world clean for democracy”.
Set against the background of The Gulf War, the work made audiences focus on what was being done by our government ‘in our name’.
THE NEW WORLD ORDER played at multiple festivals selling out and receiving glowing reviews in the national press.
What People Are Saying
"Both Pinter and site-specific theatre emerge as winners. An artistic triumph."
"Genuinely, lastingly disturbing."
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Watch Co-creators Jem Wall & Richard Hahlo talk about why they made THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Funded by Arts Council England
Commissioned by Brighton Festival
Production dates
Creative Teams & Casts
Conceived by - Richard Hahlo & Jem Wall
Director - Ellie Jones
Designer - Ellen Cairns
Sound - Thor McIntyre-Burnie
Lx Design - Tim Mascall
Movement Director - Vik Sivalingham
Assistant Director - Marie Lager
Community Cast Director - Corinne Metcalf
Production Manager - Philip Morgan
Company Stage Manager -Lauren Hiller
Stage Manager - Ruth Perrin
ASM - Hayley Craven
Technicians - William Bone & Jonathan Hewlett
Assistant Designer - Sam Horton
Outreach Project Manager - Hannah Wheeler
Design Assistants - Florence Platford, Jo Gaterell, Lauren Platt
Directors, Hydrocracker - Richard Hahlo & Jem Wall
Executive Producer, Hydrocracker - Emma Haughton
For Brighton Festival: Jane McMorrow, Matt Lyndon Jones, Philip Morgan, Tanya Ashdown
Producer - Lucy Moore, Arts Agenda
Finance support - Lesley Wood, Arts Agenda
Administrator - Holly Hyams, Arts Agenda
Cast(s): Kate Dyson, Beth Fitzgerald, Richard Hahlo, Hugh Ross, Ross F Sutherland, Matthew Wait & Jem Wall
Esther Ruth Elliot, Finley Gee, Richard Hahlo, Hugh Ross, Pieter Snepvangers, Matthew Wait, Jem Wall & Jane Wood
Community Ensemble(s):
Alex Beales,Matt Beaumont, Jade Blue, Ellie Cleasby, Gina Marsh, Natasha Newington, Grania Patterson, Giselle Schiniou, Andy Small, Adrain Spring.
Michael Adams, Julia Aisling, Rosie Akerman, Amyn Ali, ,Russel Barnet, Monica Battaglia, Jim Calderwood, Terence Drew,Tegen Hitchens, Matthew Grant, Annie Jackson, Felicity Jane, Tamar K Karpas, Liz Long, Adam Newington, Imogen Miller Porter, Jack Roberts, Murray Simons, Louise Taylor, Matt Weyland, Jade Weighell, Lily Whiteside.
Zia Ahmed, Arielle Brown, Ema Dennis Edwards, Kayode Ewumi, Jenny Glithero, Harry Harrington, Clare Joseph, Gerry Knoud, Alex Papadikis, Andrea Pope, Malachi Small, Bryony Jarvis Taylor,
Community Ensemble Boys:Jonah Garrett-Bannister & Pablo Cano Carciofa
