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Gross Domestic Product @ Edinburgh Fringe – Publicity Designer

11:35, Fri 1st – Sat 23rd August 2025 at Greenside @ Riddles Court (Willow Studio)

Shortlisted for the Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting

Finlay McGowan, consultant, is an unremarkable man, and he has woken up in Whitehall, tied to a chair. Being unable to leave and spiralling into mania, two civil servants enter and explain his capture: After years of research and development, HM Government has perfected “The System”, an electronic, economic Nostradamus whose word is law and always knows the path to economic growth. There’s just one problem - for the GDP to grow, according to The System, Finlay has to put his life on the line. He cannot be made to do it, and cannot be coerced. For the prediction to come true, the System says, Finlay must want to do it.

Gross Domestic Product is a dark comedy that asks us the question - in 21st century Britain, when push comes to shove, how much is a human life really worth?

This show shall be one of two productions that our independent theatre company - Pique Theatre - debuts with at Fringe. Our other production, Cockaigne Drinking Society, is similarly advertised on this site.

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