Trojan Horses by Peter Jukes at The Cockpit

A rehearsed reading of a powerful new play by Peter Jukes.

Directed by Steve Unwin.

Cast includes Joanna Scanlan and Hardeep Matharu - exciting full cast to be announced soon.

Trojan Horses follows the plan of Putin’s Grey Cardinal, Vladislav Surkov, to accelerate a hybrid information war against the West in the wake of the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine, and the involvement of Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica in the vote to leave the European Union and elect Donald Trump.

About the team

• Peter Jukes is an award-winning theatre, radio and television writer, an author and a pioneering journalist, and co-founder of Byline Times.
• Joanna Scanlan is a BAFTA and British Independent Film Award-winning actor, known for The Thick of It, Getting On, No Offence and After Love.
• Stephen Unwin has worked extensively with the Traverse in Edinburgh, founded English Touring Theatre, and was artistic director of the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
• Hardeep Matharu is a journalist, writer and speaker, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and editor-in-chief of Byline Times. She made her stage debut in the recent revival of David Edgar's Destiny at The Cockpit.