WILD JUSTICE
(2014)

WILD JUSTICE was a heady mix of Hydrocracker’s ability to make exciting work and encourage challenging conversations. We wanted to know if our work could really engender debate on a serious subject whilst a performance was in place and if the audience would get up out of their seats and become part of the action.

At the core of WILD JUSTICE was a text by Neil Fleming. Neil wanted to use 16th Century Revenge Tragedy formula and Hydrocracker’s experience of making immersive and politically challenging theatre to explore the ambiguities and irrationalities of revenge in our time. Hydrocracker’s Jem Wall and Richard Hahlo dramatized Fleming’s text, developing a number of scenarios around the audience, asking them to confront their own feelings of revenge and think about the consequences of such feelings – both on the individual and society as a whole.

Performed to a full house as part of Brighton Festival’s Debate programme, WILD JUSTICE included an extraordinary group of experts whose own experience and understanding of revenge made for lively, and at some times, heated debate.