- o Nanm21 Lon0an cutive, was sentenced to A LONDON West End theatre is not the usual place you would expect lo look for a Marxist analysis of the rise of post-war British fascism. But there Is one there at the moment - Destiny by David Edgar at the Aldwych Theatre.
Although the play marks change from Eogar's earber agilprop style, Birmingham Repentory Theatre still Tound the polidied The Royal shakespeare content too bot to mpany staged it last year as r susall Stratford theatre, the Other Place. It is above all a estimony to the play as theatre hat the RSC was prepared to sove it so its London theatre.
play's central characters ate drawn together by their common experlence in India on Independence Day, 1947.
UNION JACK When he is demobbed Sergeant Taylor .SC15 dealer. He is bought our by the Metropolitan Investient Trust and sets up a hand of tatty union jack wavers which becomes absorbed by a party called Nation no prizes for guessby-election candidate he becomes ing who they BLL whose In a Midlands constituency. Major Roife becomes increas ingly convinced of the need far an "iron dawn' to set the country back When Turmei wins 23 per oent of the by-clectien poll Rotfe offers Turner and the Nation Forward leaders his fioancial support -DEV LOT SUTIT to discover that Rolfe is the boss of the Metropolitan Investment Trust.
The only condition, the fascists tell Rolfe, is that you must he prepared to drop the "free' fram free enterprise And there is Gurjeet Singh Khera, the servant who takes Left leaders of NUS to this MeAT AIRHAI NOLORYD0 The coochunY o calar Steps have to be taken now COmODIGO newIUDGSUDODN LINE Studente demonstrate outside Pentonvllin Prison the night Strouthous was ja lled Morning The importance of the reformIsc solution is exposed, but we are spared any casy slogantsing- al climax ol the debate berween the EBOUT CEHEC AOI TC ASAI and their ally — ironically set in an Indian restaurant - presents clear political conchisions, but we do have to draw them for curselves. In one short -scene Eduar manages to presen personal dilemma of the Labourite witbout engaging our sympathy for him in the sliebiest. It is that sort of proscutation — quite a departure from agitprop which is the play's strength. But i wands oul anove ail as i political statement. Those critice such as Colin Chambers af the Star, who saW solution offered must have closed their eyes and cars a few minutes from the cod Desting ends with a familiar bur warning trom Adolr Hider: 'Only one thing coul have stopped our movement - it our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first day has smashed with the utaos brutality the nucleus of our new movement.
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