Keeping the world clean for democracy.

THE NEW WORLD ORDER, Hydrocracker's most successful and overtly political site-specific work, was an ambitious amalgamation of five of Harold Pinter’s plays - One for the Road, The New World Order, Precisely, Mountain Language and Press Conference.  

The production took the audience on a journey - literally and metaphorically - from a press conference with the Minister of Culture in a plush debating chamber and then down into the cells and corridors of the basement, where the functionaries of the new world order “keep the world clean for democracy”. 

Set against the background of The Gulf War, the work made audiences focus on what was being done by our government ‘in our name’. 

“Both Pinter and site-specific theatre emerge as winners. As artistic triumph” - The Guardian

“Genuinely, lastingly disturbing” - Total Politics

A Hydrocracker production commissioned by Brighton Dome & Festival. Supported by the Arts Council England.