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The show typifies different trajectories of estate-dwellers without value judgment, but with precise insight. Housing planners, architects, and BBC documentary-makers in the 1960s champion the welfare state ideals crushed into concrete, but they are quickly followed by 1970s reactionary critics lamenting the isolated lifestyle estates allegedly perpetuate.Īmid all that, of course, are the people who actually live there, Trap Street’s primary focus. Co-writers Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman, who also directs, chart the life of Andrea, played by Danusia Samal as a young girl growing up on the Austen estate with her mum Val and brother Graham, and by Amelda Brown as an old woman, who finds herself a beneficiary of right-to-buy legislation fifty years on. Austen Estate exists on one of these trap streets, and the 80-minute show explores the changing attitude towards such buildings. Trap streets are not real, and yet they are traces of a past legacy, born out of an ambition to map out a home, and have become indelible parts of a location’s geography (the London A-Z apparently has around one hundred of them).Ĭollaborative company Kandinsky masterfully uses this idea to chart the recent history of estates in London. It’s a concept that feels endlessly rich, and a perfect starting point for a play.
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Trap Street takes its name from the fictitious streets drawn on maps by cartographers as devices to expose copyright violators or copycats.