Neighbourhood Watch

Neighbourhood Watch

Overview

“ The police are hanging on by a whisker… by that much...It’s not just here, mark you. It’s nationwide. One breath of wind - anarchy!’’

Things are not right on The Bluebell Hill Development. Theft, petty crime, vandalism, all the ills of modern suburban existence are on the increase.

Newcomers Martin and his sister Hilda are the crime-wave’s  latest victims and resolve to take action. After all, the law of the land, all that’s right and proper and even God Himself are surely on their side. But what starts out as a well-intentioned neighbourhood watch scheme soon develops into something altogether more sinister.

Alan Ayckbourn’s extraordinary prescient play about law and disorder is his seventy-fifth work and visits Bath direct from The Brits Off Broadway Festival in New York. It is also the three hundredth new play to be commissioned by the Stephen Joseph Theatre, whose annual visits to Bath have become a highlight of the Spring Season.