You won't find any of Elspeth Sandys' neighbours depicted in her play The Body Politic. However belonging to a body corporate inspired her to write it. "It occurred to me a body corporate is like a mini-democracy," she says.
The Body Politic looks at the collapse of democracy through the power struggles and personality clashes that happen in an inner-city Wellington apartment block.
The "witty, wry and compelling" play opens at Wellington's Circa Theatre next week.
Elspeth Sandys Photo: Helen Mitchell
