The Rape of Europe was commissioned by Transquinquennial , a Belgian company from Brussels, who strangely enough never performed it. It then went to the Royal Court and was first read there, but the artistic director was busy on that day and unluckily missed it, and he had been really looking forwards to it,....It was due to be published by Oberon Books who had paid for it when it was called Gengis Goes to Europe, but unfortunately, when it was delivered in its present form, found themselves unable to publish it because of a busy schedule...much as they would have liked to.It was later performed by Ducks and Geese, at the Calder Bookshop, one of the last remaining left wing bookshops, as a reading in January 2013, where it can still be found on sale, published by Levellers Press.(Gregory Motton also writes about the EU and its role in surpressing working- class wages, in A Working Class Alternative to Labour, published by Levellers Press) |
The Rape Of Europe |