The Angry Brigade explores two opposing forces — The Branch, government investigators, and The Brigade, an anarchist group of young idealists.
Told in two mirrored parts, the play moves from order to chaos and back again: a bureaucratic world that unravels, and an anarchic one that sharpens into focus.
Inspired by 1970s real events and sterile government offices, the design creates an off-white, gridded environment of suspended ceilings and containment — a visual metaphor for control.
In Part I, the investigators’ workspace evolves from a neat corkboard to walls covered in frantic connections, reflecting their descent into obsession. By Part II, the set fractures — “Why do you even need walls?” — exposing the collapse of boundaries between investigator and rebel.
In the end, both sides mirror each other, showing that even when the system breaks, its structure endures.
