A reminder of where groupthink leads.' Eimear McBride'A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.' Claire-Louise Bennett'A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.' Andrew Hunter Murray'Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future. Completely got under my skin.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Lush, hypnotic, compulsive. The signature of an enchantress.' Edna O'Brien'I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.' Lauren Groff'Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Lost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick's They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning.'Every bit as creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.' Ian Rankin'Delicious and sexy and downright chilling.
Soon the National Gallery is purged eerie towers survey the coast mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity.Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. John MandelThis is Britain: but not as we know it. Written in 1977 by Kay Dick, out of print for decades, and newly re-released by. Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. March Book Of The Month is up, and its the fantastic dystopia of They. Step through the doors of the iconic John Rylands Library, and into a dystopian world – as Maxine performs an afterhours reading of They – in one of the last safe spaces left for artists in the city.As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.'A creepily prescient tale. They marks the trio’s first production as the newly-formed company MAAT – a collective adventure to make new work in conversation with Music, Art, Activism and Theatre. The adaptation is their latest Festival collaboration, following The Masque of Anarchy, The Skriker and The Nico Project, which celebrated radical acts and artists. First published in 1977, the novel went out of print for decades but was recently re-discovered and feels more relevant than ever.įor MIF23, the book is brought to life as a live performance created by Maxine Peake, Sarah Frankcom and Imogen Knight.
These are just some of the questions raised by They: A Sequence of Unease, Kay Dick’s dystopian masterpiece. Would it be enough to go on quietly creating for yourself? To memorise your favourite passages before all books disappear? What is art without an audience or a debate? Imagine a near-future where creative expression is outlawed, all art eradicated and any resistance takes enormous courage.
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