Slag (play)
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Slag is a 1970 play by British writer
Hampstead Theatre Club,[1] it transferred in a revived production to the Royal Court and its notice there won David Hare the Evening Standard award for most promising new playwright. The original cast at the Royal Court were: Lynn Redgrave, Anna Massey, and Barbara Ferris
.
Slag is a biting satire in which the only characters are the three teachers of a tiny isolated girls' school. The play begins with a mutual vow reminiscent of the vow beginning the play
slags". Conflicts among the teachers' different visions of radical feminism, different motivations, and different interpretations of and commitment to the vow become the grist for duplicitous dominant and abusive acts among them and distracts them from their teaching. Dominance and Feminism
are ridiculed alike, while the number of pupils dwindles to zero in the resulting dysfunctional environment, leaving the three teachers to go their separate ways.
Slag was a breakthrough play for David Hare. Reputedly written by Hare in three days, working out of the back of a van, it won for him the Evening Standard (London) Award for most promising new playwright and launched his prolific and successful career as a playwright.
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