“We’re supposed to be having a party. It’s s’posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun.”

Commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, Defibrillator presents Doug Lucie’s chillingly funny Hard Feelings. unseen in London for nearly 25 years.

Thatcher’s Britain – Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, in the safety of their home, a group of Oxford University graduates barely notice what’s happening on the streets outside as police and rioters clash, shops are looted and buildings set on fire. In both worlds there is a fight for rights… a fight for respect …a fight for control. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will make the strongest cocktail? And when the dust finally settles the question remains… Will things ever change?

Hard Feelings was first staged at the Oxford Playhouse in 1982, before transferring to the Bush Theatre in 1983, directed by Mike Bradwell. It was later broadcast as a BBC Play for Today.