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Wild, Hampstead Theatre London
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MIKE BARTLETT'S opening play in Hampstead Theatre's short season of free weekly online productions owes much to Pinter's comedies of menace, with their characteristic mixture of humour, mystery and lurking fear.
Like The Dumb Waiter, originally planned for Hampstead's main theatre programme — now postponed — Wild is set initially in a recognisable social context, with the plot progressively leaving the target character bewildered and unhinged.
Michael, played by Jack Farthing, is a somewhat naive Edward Snowden-type whistleblower who, having leaked a massive stash of incriminating Pentagon documents, is on the run.
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