I don't get angry, people get angry at me. In fact, I've only ever sworn once in a car… in English.' In a hotel basement somewhere in Birmingham, three people – a nurse, a delivery driver and an entrepreneur – are attending a speed-awareness course to address their aggressive driving. Abz, a leading expert on road safety and the most in-demand course facilitator north of the M25, presents them with a choice: change your ways, or lose your licence. But the training course quickly veers into a tumultuous group-therapy session as they are forced to confront the real question: why are we all so angry? Mohamed-Zain Dada's play Speed is a breakneck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning. Wickedly comic and darkly thrilling, it was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Milli Bhatia.
"'Bristles with humour and snarls with home truths... cements Dada as an audacious new talent... Just as in Blue Mist, Dada delivers complex ideas with a light touch so that there is no jarring didacticism. Of course, it is about so much more than speeding and road rage. Blasting through at 90 minutes, it maintains its smile for a long time but ends with bared teeth'"
Guardian
"'A funny, smartly original play that explores huge issues'"
