TOM PAINE
by Paul Foster
Friday 1 to Saturday 2 July 2011
Mary Wallace Theatre
This is not a historically accurate or necessarily illuminating play about Tom Paine (the real person) - or the (mythical) revolutionary who was a central figure in English civil unrest, the American War of Independence or the French Revolution, but is rather an impressionistic avant-garde piece of theatre which builds a series of montages which speak about the nature of revolution with the character of Tom Paine as the centrepiece of spin.