Traffic Of The Stage

Immigrant workers in the sex industry... Stressed out teachers in the public sector.... Violence and racial tension in the inner city. East Europeans trying to make a fast euro... This is the London at the sharp end at the cutting edge.

Fast-moving, raw, and humorous, John Cooper's latest play cuts through the spin and the platitudes and looks at the increasingly complex cultural mix that is London today.

You want to know what goes on in inner-city schools... You don't go to Offsted... You ask a classroom teacher on a full time-table.

Chris and Marie, urban professionals working the public sector in Little Venice seem to be doing OK. A nice house, jobs in the inner-city, daughter at uni...

But what's the real cost...

John Cooper's latest play examines the growing ethnic diversity of contemporary London and looks at values and morals in a rapidly changing post-colonial culture. Under the spotlight is the pressure on those at the frontline of public sector education with its controversial policies of political correctness and positive discrimination.

But the play also deals with the erotic and sensual undertow in multi-cultural London where sex , as ever, is a powerful and irresistible driving force.

If you're a personable young girl from Romania, what will get you further... a GCSE or a G-String!?