40 Questions About a Political Play

Available July 2025. Limited edition - 100 copies

In this intimate essay, published in pamphlet form by Calque Press in Cambridge, UK, Dan O’Brien begins with an apparently simple question: does anybody truly want to see a political play? This provocation is then developed, unpicked, reorganised: what is a political play? What does it mean to think about politics in art? Who are writers writing for? These questions lead onto larger ideas of responsibility in general, and the initial starting point takes us jaggedly into a masterful investigation of what it means to create: how else do we discover the world except through asking questions about it?