Dimensions
144 x 222 x 34mm
It's 1994 and a gang of good-hearted young people are setting off for Bosnia in a Ford Transit van with a sack of rice and a half-written play to try to stop the war. Andrew would love to stop the war. He has one of the best personal private foreign policies of anyone working on a building site in the North West area. He feels everyone should have a foreign policy, really. What sort of person doesn't have a Foreign Policy? But what he'd like to do - maybe even more than stopping the war - is sleep with Penny, who he believes to be the love of his life. But does Penny like him? Or does she love Simon, his rival, an irritatingly authentic Geordie poet? Or Shannon, the fiercely inspiring American leader of the play troupe? Who exactly loves who? It could take a while to work out, as the gang cross Europe and head, via newly-recognized Croatia, into the war zone. There Andrew and the gang encounter minefields, artillery attacks, sex, death and drugs. At times they hope they might be close to achieving their dream of lighting a beacon of peace that will illuminate all Europe. But as events unfold it seems they might in fact be a key component in a web of interlocking animosity. A web that confounds all their hopes and illusions about the war. Can and should you intervene on someone else - on their life, on their nation? And if you do, what responsibility do you have to them?
