In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible.

An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying NHS, Joe Penhall's riveting, blackly comic drama won the Evening Standard award for best play of the year in 2000.

The action unfolds over the course of two days as a pair of psychiatrists clash over the diagnosis of Christopher, a young black patient who has been arrested and sectioned for doing ‘something funny’ in Shepherd’s Bush market.

Bruce is in his first year of practice and believes that Christopher may be schizophrenic. He wants to keep him as an in-patient. Robert, the senior consultant, disagrees – but is he motivated by a desire to protect the patient from a misdiagnosis based on cultural bias, or merely by the need to manage a shortage of beds? Or perhaps both Doctors’ opinions are inspired by a more personal conflict?

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