Wait...they didn't even bother to write their own songs? Fuck me that's bleak.

I mean the actor, Armin Shimermann

Oh, I have 4000 points of Alaitoc from my mispent youth (and, shamefully, 1500 points of 2nd edition Necrons.)

Sean

I play mid 80s games. Must admit I was recently very pleasantly surprised by Final Fantasy 2 (actual 2, not 5), especially how modern it felt compared to number 1.

The weeping, bloody head of Robespierre, eternally crushed by the weight of his successor's cowardice.

Yeah, so Tielhard de Chardin thought about this and turns out no increasing the fundamental amd material union of mankind with itself and the logos of reality is in fact a very religious thing to do.

maniacal laughing as Canton flips over to reveal a red field with hammer and sickle.

More attracted to this than the entire op cast combined.

This sounds like something we could make an Australian tradition very fast. We fuckin love pumpkin.

I'm more familiar with pre-20th century stuff and tend more towards musicals and opera than straight plays, but I'm a big fan of the great 18th century Bourgois revolutionary operas William Tell (Rossini) and La Muette di Portici (Auber). The first was the trigger for the 3 days in July, the latter for the Belgian Revolution.

There's also the ballad musical Reedy River, about the aftermath of the Australian 1891 Miner's strike that triggered the formation of the Australian Labour Party, the first Social Democratic Party to take power in the world.

If your looking for Socialist Operas/Plays/Ballets, the Maoist era plays (often filmed before staged, but they're all quite stagey in scripting) are better than their reputation suggests. The Red Detachment of Women is a particular favourite, though I prefer the ballet to the other adaptations.

For 20th-century straight plays, I recommend John Crawford, particularly his "Rocket Range" which examines the effect of the Woomera Rocket Range opening on local Aboriginal Communities.

All of them were pretty bleak with no real good people and no way out of a mutually genocidal war of violence that...well...humans started.