Hyperlynx

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A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground Who is the enemy Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002. Hyperlynx was the winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2002

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A short, sharp piece of quite deadly sophistication about the power of the multinationals. Well done, that man. * John Peter, Sunday Times *

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John McGrath died in 2002, after a long career of making political theatre. The monologue Hyperlynx was written shortly before his death, around the time of the anti-capitlist demonstrations in Genoa. It will be performed at the Pleasance Dome as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2002.