One Fine Day
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
First Staged:
Riverside Studios, London, 1980

One Fine Day

By Nicholas Wright
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

It's 1980 and Steve Winter, a lecturer back in London, has been sent on a fact-finding mission by the Ministry of Education to a People's Republic in Eastern Africa.

In exchange for his month's stay at a local Teacher Training College, he has brought with him the latest in audio-visual technology to show the staff and students. Although the College is known for its progressive values, Steve nevertheless finds himself at odds with the senior management over the profitability of the school's shambas (fields used to grow crops), which are tended to by the students themselves without proper remuneration.

The play examines the fate of the students trapped in a cycle of quasi-slave labour and their helplessness at the hands of a variety of corporations who are creaming off the profits made at their expense.

Nicholas Wright's play One Fine Day premiered at the Riverside Studios in London in 1980.

Press Quotes

'A real cracker: a superlatively unpatronising comedy about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa'

Guardian

Also by Nicholas Wright:

The Slaves of Solitude
His Dark Materials
Vincent in Brixton
Three Sisters
The Custom of the Country
Lulu
Travelling Light
Mrs Klein
Rattigan's Nijinsky
Thérèse Raquin
Naked
Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Regeneration
The Desert Air
John Gabriel Borkman
Treetops
Cressida
8 Hotels
The Reporter
The Last of the Duchess

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