6/21/2023 0 Comments Scotland yard undercover detective![]() ![]() Kefi’s intimate production gives audiences a sense of the methods used by police officers who will use any means necessary to dig up information to relay to their seniors involving radical political, social, or environmental movements, and hints at the institutional sexism within the Metropolitan Police.įounded upon the arrests that charged the environmental activists inhabiting Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station with trespass, Any Means Necessary profoundly demonstrates the exploitation of human rights that exposed one of the largest national police scandals of all time. Dave soon becomes a key figure in both Mel’s life and that of her activist friends, but ‘decent Dave’ is not who Mel believes him to be. When Mel meets Dave, a supposed carpenter who wants to get involved in the protest movement, she is convinced she has found her soul mate. By centring her production on the story of a character named Mel, Kefi demonstrates the length of time over which such abuses were carried out, and the overwhelming suffering caused by betrayal and broken trust. Through a framing device of a Parliamentary hearing, Kefi explores the stories of women affected by such a misogynistic abuse of power. The woman in question started legal proceedings against the Metropolitan Police for ‘psychological torture’. Recent investigations in January 2016 have unearthed another undercover officer using the name Carlo Neri, who proposed to a woman whilst under the guise of this fake persona. An unmasking of similar underground operations, set up to infiltrate protest groups from as far back as 1968, followed. January 2011 saw the exposure of undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, deployed to infiltrate a group of environmental activists who had planned to reside in, and temporarily shut down, a coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire in April 2009. I was lucky enough to watch the play last week and it has inspired me to explore its riveting back story in a little more detail… Having interviewed the real women who disclosed the events that caused them to put their hearts into the hands of these men and their false personas, Kefi ensures her drama presents a powerful case that is both horrifying and unsettlingly close to home. ![]() On for a limited time only at the Nottingham Playhouse, Any Means Necessary is a new commission written by Kefi Chadwick that examines the true stories of women deceived into relationships with undercover police officers. This blog post was written by second year English student, Victoria Lorriman from the School of English. February 29, 2016, by Words on Words Any Means Necessary – New Drama Exposes Intimate Betrayal of Women by Undercover Police ![]()
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