nightmare world

In short, it is an all too plausible nightmare world.

Yet at a rehearsal in London last month, the day before Russia invaded Ukraine, the play’s nightmare world didn’t feel so far-fetched.

Their plans drew from the Klan and The Order, white supremacist terrorists who took their name from The Turner Diaries, "a racist's vision of a nightmare world, in which 'The System'—African American enforcers led by Jewish politicians—attempt to confiscate all guns."

But spare a thought for the Looney Tunes-esque Noodles who, in the nightmare world of Harry Thompson’s Monkey Dust, finds himself clocking on at Simplex Biosolutions: an animal test centre where he’s injected with everything from cologne to killer viruses.

And Alyx is optimistic about humanity, starting with its protagonist who’s matter-of-factly trying to save her nightmare world.