Since moving off shore, business has boomed for Smile! Ltd. The extraction program is highly lucrative, and the female correction facility is crammed. Come release day, a cheerful examiner removes the trainees’ grinning masks and claims their positivity assessment is just a routine bit of fun.
Smile! is a new play for radio and stage set in an alternate reality, using allegory to advocate global social justice, which premiered in 2021 featuring Rosie played by Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens in the online radio premiere, directed by Mel Cook).
Order a copy of play by Helena Thompson from Waterstones here.
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