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DRAMA TEXTS, PLAYS. Drama text. Falk Richter's unsettling new play State of Emergency provocatively explores the consequences which occur when an initially utopian world becomes a new form of prison. Focusing upon the life of a married couple who live in what appears to be an ideal neighbourhood protected from the dangers of the world outside, Richter examines the concepts of state control and self control, to reveal how the civic dream can soon spiral into an Orwellian nightmare.