PREVIEW: Will Power

Will Power: Rebecca Mahar talks to Salvador Kent about form, farce and clowning in political theatre

The General Will is a new play at the Fringe from up-and-coming Edinburgh-based writer and director Salvador Kent, who uses the the meta-analysis of clown to critique current events and the political players who shape them.

In the play, two clowns – government actors – enact current events that have made their approval ratings drop to an all time low. Meanwhile, two Gen-Z actual actors rehearse a play responding to these events… 

Chloe Embley in rehearsal for The General Will. Pic: Salvador Kent.

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Commissioned by, and originally published on All Edinburgh Theatre, 29 July 2025. Edited by Thom Dibdin.

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