What if we told you we know people who dare to imagine something different? They’ve pushed against the system, stood up for what is right, and demanded the impossible.
What if we told you they gave their whole lives to their cause? Campaigning for justice, blocking roads, halting planes, to stop a bomb, to change a law, to save a life.
What if we told you their friends and lovers were spying on them? Eating at their tables, sleeping in their beds, and dancing with them at raves. All orchestrated, sanctioned and paid for by the state?
What if we told you construction workers were refused work because they were blacklisted after undercover cops grassed them up to the bosses?
What if we told you the police spied on racial justice campaigns? Surveilling families grieving the loss of their murdered children.
Have you ever had to question your entire truth?
Demand the Impossible is part-performance, part punk-gig, part-sensory experience, exploring police injustice and the undercover infiltration of activist networks. It challenges us to question truth, trust and power, as uncomfortable relationships between the state, police and citizens are exposed.
We’ll never know what our world would have looked like if we’d been allowed to change it.
We’ll never know what our lives would be like if our trust hadn’t been broken.
But one thing we do know is they come at us because we’re strong, not because we’re weak, and the only way to address this injustice is to keep demanding the impossible.
Demand the Impossible opens at the Corn Exchange, Newport from 6-13 October 2025. Tickets will go on sale soon!
The development of the production has involved close collaboration with Undercover Research Network, Police Spies Out of Lives, and the Spycops Info Podcast, in a co-production with the Wales Millennium Centre, supported by National Theatre Wales.
