VIEW IN ADVANCE, and discuss on Thursday:

The Vote is a hilarious and provocative stage play, filmed for television, about voting. Set in the UK during the 2015 general election, the farcical drama was staged at the Donmar Warehouse and telecast, live, while viewers awaited results. The piece is 90 minutes long, and features a cast of around 40, including a long list of famous British actors, and starring Catherine Tate (The Office).

As critic Michael Billington wrote in the Guardian: "The action takes place in a typical primary-school gym that has been hastily converted into a working model of democracy.... The trouble starts when a bumbling codger appears to have voted twice. Assuming he has voted for the Conservatives, Tate tries to even up the score by persuading her reluctant husband and son to cast their votes for Labour. But that is only the start of the mayhem, in which various criminal frauds are perpetrated to ensure the outcome is not skewed."

Join Dr. Rosemary Malague, faculty fellow at the Kings Court English College House, and director of the Theatre Arts Program at Penn, for a conversation about The Vote on Zoom on Thursday, September 17 from 8:00 - 9 pm.  How can a farce about voting impact viewers' thoughts and feelings about our most important act of civic engagement? Look for an e-mail announcment with a Zoom link for our conversation.

Links to the 90 minute play, shown in two parts, are here:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x730m8f

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x730pef