UK Twee & The American Gaze

This script was originally performed and published as an audio essay via the Side Missions project. In Vassal State, Angus Hanton goes into forensic detail about the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US. He examines how romanticised British companies are being increasingly run through and captured by American ones, to the extent that one in ten Brits now work for a company owned on the other side of the Atlantic. Full disclosure, I’m one of them. To quote: The British characters we ...