Show 1032 – You’ve Got to Pick a Property or Two – 16th Feb evening – The Other Palace, London

A monopoly board

Kevin’s friends meet every Saturday night for games night and one of their most popular games is monopoly. They have tried all sorts of varieties including inspector monopoly but they are always looking for something different. Then one day Kevin is in Clapham High Street he passes a mysterious games shop with a mysterious old man who offers him a mysterious game – Interactive Monopoly.

When Kevin and his friends follow the rules of the game they suddenly find themselves inside a game of monopoly and all their previously repressed desires and tensions come to the fore as the capitalist desire for more property and to bankrupt their friends takes over. Will they manage to break free of the game or be trapped in it forever? And who is the powerful and dangerous figure known only as: The Banker?