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Peterborough College will host the performance and aims to entertain and engage young people in the consequences and harsh realities of hard choices.
What’s Chaos about?
Two best mates. One HUGE party. Luton is pinned by austerity. An evening of noughties bangers and shots of shitty gin mixed with the chaos of violence. A night to remember!
Following a SOLD OUT Edinburgh Fringe run, Chalk Line presents The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return.
Set over one chaotic night, the play follows two best friends as they chase the highs of youth against a backdrop of systemic neglect. Painting a tapestry of violence and joy, it is a raw, real- time collision of friendship and survival. Told with biting wit and lyrical intensity, this production is a powerful exploration of class and identity, with a cracking house party that pulses round the corner.
CHAOS analyses how easily young people can be drawn into challenging and conflicting circumstances, when they are surrounded by issues, such as hostile county lines and personal austerity in the face of a lack of government support. The show simultaneously is an entertaining hilarious evening at the theatre set to an early noughties soundtrack that contrasts the exhilaration of youth to the very real dangers of gang violence and knife crime. It focuses on how a life full of potential and that’s bursting with energy, can all come to an end in an instant if the wrong decisions are made. It aims to speak for young working class people across the UK.
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Thu 23rd Oct 2025
7pm
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"A masterclass in storytelling"Theatre Weekly
"Unfolds like an urban epic: its small cast of characters freewheeling through streets and council estates, the fizzing freedom of youth caught against the suffocating constraints of British austerity...it all feels irresistible"Fest Magazine
"Playwright Sam Edmunds gives us a teens’-eye view of the town in the 00s with this arresting account of a house party...an eloquent assessment of how fear can result in fury"The Guardian
"Think Steven Berkoff’s East crossed with a grimy, anti-lyrical Under Milkwood and you have something of the flavour of this odyssey into the underbelly of Luton. Writer Sam Edmunds sees the life burning furiously inside of them."Lyn Gardner, The Stage
“Edmunds paints a vivid picture of the limiting factors on the lives of working-class men, the grinding sense of debt that is passed down from generation to generation, the violence they encounter and have to live with on the street..it’s exhilarating”What's On Stage