Is it better to fight against an oppressive regime, or to collaborate with it in order to gain a position from which one can do a little good? This is the dilemma explored in Arnold Hinchliffe’s last play… Read more Buy now
The Brotherhood of Thieves
by Arnold Hinchliffe
London 1776 “Man is born free but is everywhere in chains” (J-J Rousseau). In America the colonists have just raised the flag of revolt while in France the tottering ancien régime is nearing its end. In London, magnificent and miserable London, a formidably well-organised band of thieves led by Ne’er Hang Jack, terrorise the wealthy, combining violence with deep revolutionary convictions… Read more Buy now
Is it better to fight against an oppressive regime, or to collaborate with it in order to gain a position from which one can do a little good? This is the dilemma explored in Arnold Hinchliffe’s last play… 
London 1776 “Man is born free but is everywhere in chains” (J-J Rousseau). In America the colonists have just raised the flag of revolt while in France the tottering ancien régime is nearing its end. In London, magnificent and miserable London, a formidably well-organised band of thieves led by Ne’er Hang Jack, terrorise the wealthy, combining violence with deep revolutionary convictions…