JOEL MARLIN

THE STATESMAN is the story of a humorless village and the bitter old man whose job it is to teach them to be funny.  After a boy is banished for laughing, the people face a terrifying dilemma: to protect their way of life, they must become the very thing they are not.

produced by Metal Rabbit Productions, Simon Paris Productions, and Arsalan Sattari Productions at Theatro Technis, London, 2025

with David Fielder, Paul Westwood, Rosie Armstrong, Leah Aspden, Dan Nicholson, and Joanna Ventura