The Swing Left tells the story of six people trying to find their way in a radically changed world. Charting a journey of personal and national rehabilitation, the play paints a vivid picture of England in the immediate aftermath of the 2nd World War.
In overlapping narratives over one long weekend, a returning soldier struggles with the guilt of having spent the war as a POW, while the staff of his military hospital battle with traumas of their own; an aristocratic communist drunkenly heralds the dawn of a socialist Britain, while her insomniac brother waits for daybreak and company in a fog-bound railway station. Gradually their paths cross, secrets are shared and a ghost from the past points the way home.
Eschewing an easy nostalgia, the show is still far from bleak. The play is suffused with the defiantly romantic music of the period and the characters too face their uncertain future with courage, passion and humour.
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