The Orange Tree brings The Conspirators Vaclav Havel’s play about corruption and conspiracy to the Orange Tree in its first UK production.

The revolution has taken place. The dictator has fled. The new government is in power.

But the prime minister’s secretary is under arrest and there are demonstrators on the streets and concern that the ideals of the revolution are about to be betrayed. The chiefs of the police, the army, the law and the intelligence services – aided and abetted by Helga, a rich and attractive widow known to them all – decide that action must be taken to protect the fledgling democracy. They must form a new, secret, Revolutionary Council and just at that moment they hear that there is indeed a conspiracy.