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Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches. But is that enough to bring about change Alejandra and Marcela are female anarchists, nervously planning to plant bombs in the middle of the night. They dont want violence. They just want to be heard. Prisons not much of a threat when most of your friends are inside. Then they meet Jos Miguel. He is from a different generation, a time when revolution was ripe and activism alive, and he's committed to change by any means possible. B explores what revolution and violence mean to two different generations. As they talk. the women's naivety is exposed, and "Caldern manages successfully to convey the self-aggrandising absurdity that often lies behind terrorist acts." (The Guardian). Bis written by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderon and was developed as part of the Royal Court Theatre's international programme.

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Guillermo Calderon heralded by The New Yorker as an authentic genius of the theatre

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Guillermo Calderon is a Chilean playwright, screenwriter and theatre director currently living in the USA. His plays have toured extensively through South America, North America and Europe. He has been commissioned by the Public Theater, NYC and La Jolla Playhouse, California. William Gregory has been translating plays since 2003 and has translated over 100 plays, many of them new works, for theatres and organisations including Royal Court Theatre, the BBC, the Old Vic and the Edinburgh International Festival, and performed around the world.