People Next Door

People Next Door is a drama by British writer Henry Adam .

The piece was premiered at the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh and lived in the Schauspielhaus Zurich on 21st January 2005 in a translation by Stephan Wetzel its premiere in German.

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The work-shy Nigel lives alone in a social apartment. He made himself comfortable in front of the TV with his drugs and the X-Box. The outside world fell into a state of latent paranoia after September 11th, but Nigel didn't notice it. He lives in peaceful coexistence with the feisty widow Mrs. McCallum, who runs a strict regiment in the stairwell, as well as with his friend Marco, who shares Nigel's fascination with television heroes, gangsta rap and video games.

The unscrupulous inspector Phil, a corrupt cop who is determined to make a name for himself in the fight against international terrorism, bursts into this idyll. He forces Nigel to penetrate suspicious Muslim circles as a police spy and permanently disturbs the neighborhood cosmos, because Mrs. McCallum and Marco are also drawn into the matter. Ultimately, neighbors become sworn accomplices who are neither intimidated by the specter of ubiquitous terror nor by the no less threatening state authorities.

expenditure

• Henry Adam: The people next door . Nick Hern Press, London 2003, ISBN 1-85459-767-1 .

literature

• Henry Adam: The people next door (“People next door”). Schauspielhaus Zürich 2005. 53 S (in German).