Rat Race opens with a wife returning home to find her husband’s body hanging from the kitchen ceiling. We soon learn that she indirectly influenced him to take his own life, in order for her to benefit from his life insurance policy.

However, when the wife meets the insurance man she discovers that her claim isn’t valid with suicide. Enlisting the help of the insurance man, she embarks on a plan to turn her husband’s suicide into a murder scene. When she seduces a businessman in order to frame him for the murder, we realise just how far she will go to gain what she feels is rightfully hers. However, the Businessman is not all he seems, and the wife finishes the play worse off than she was at the beginning.

Rat Race was Shooting Fish’s debut play and toured the UK between October and December 2003. The play was written and directed by Darren Bolton, and starred Sarah Meadows, Ian Stopford and Andrew Pippen. This black comedy takes a look into the capitalist mentality of 1980’s Britain, as well as exploring women’s growing strength in society through the decade.

 

Cast and Crew

Written and Directed By: Darren Bolton

Wife: Sarah Meadows
Businessman: Ian Stopford
Insurance Man: Andrew Pippen

Light and Sound Operator:Craig O’Connor