First Performance 08/02/2012
Closing 03/03/2012
Running Time 2h with interval

The Shallow End is a hilarious, biting satire that attacks the mercenary agenda in the UK’s media.

Set in a 90s newsroom, amidst the wedding celebrations of a media mogul’s daughter, the axe is about to be wielded. The old-guard of a recently taken-over broadsheet paper are presented with the dilemma of yielding to the philosophy of the new regime, thus compromising their own professional and moral values, or be ousted from it.

Unmasking a heightened world of seduction and power, The Shallow End walks the stark moral battle lines that were drawn at the dawn of a new age in British media.

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