The Whip Hand

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Its Dougies birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But its he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour. He wants to serve a good cause, a global cause. He wants to make right a terrible wrong, even if it puts their daughters future at risk. An explosive new play about power, privilege, blood ties and our inescapable past.

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Privilege looms large in Douglas Maxwell's moral muddle of a play... a play about race, social inequality, Scotland's role in the slave trade and the cushion of wealth... successfully generates tension as fissures start to appear in the family, all the things simmering beneath the surface seep out, and secrets are revealed.' The Stage

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Douglas Maxwell has been one of the most popular and produced playwrights in Scotland since his debut in 2000.