A policeman, a doctor and two nurses are trapped in a mental hospital with a visionary psychotic.
A mental hospital run by whites for blacks in pre-independence Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), provides a backdrop for Motocar: a play about the Black experience of oppression.
The production opened at the Cottosloe Theatre (now the Dorfman) at the National Theatre, alongside Richard III Part Two. The production starred Joseph Marcell, who later said in WhatsonStage: “I do remember with great fondness my time with Paines Plough theatre company. We did David Pownall’s plays Motocar and Richard III Part Two, which we took to the National’s Cottesloe for a month.”
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