Gone Too Far! has an almost picaresque scenario and a deceptively simple plot. Two brothers, one brought up in Nigeria and one on a London council estate, go on a mission to buy a pint of milk. As they cross the estate, they encounter other teenagers, a protective Bangladeshi shopkeeper and an elderly woman terrified of the brothers.
The strength of debbie tucker green's writing is in her expression. This brilliant, young Black British writer has the knack of coming up with word pictures, a dramatic poetry that stays in your head long after the curtain has come down.
Mike Bartlett is writing exciting plays about families. His debut play My Child which opened at the Royal Court showed his talent for accurately observing the terrible language of family breakup. Now he follows it up with a tale about a girl and the clash of cultures in her heritage. It starts with the girl's story and ends with that of another girl from a different world. The whole is a political allegory.