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Speed awareness has never been this emotionally charged—or this funny.
—West End Best Friend
In a hotel basement somewhere in Birmingham, three people—a nurse, a delivery driver and an entrepreneur—are attending a speed-awareness course, due to their aggressive driving. Abz, the UK's leading expert on road safety and the most in-demand course facilitator north of the M25, presents them with a choice: change your ways, or lose your licence.
But the training course quickly veers into a tumultuous group therapy session as they are forced to confront the real question: Why are we all so angry?
Wickedly comic and darkly thrilling, Mohamed-Zain Dada's play Speed is a breakneck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning.
Fast-paced, intense and thrilling…Dada expertly balances the rapid shifts between comedy and drama while exploring everything from racial profiling and identity to trauma and repressed emotions.
—WhatsOnStage
Bristles with humour and snarls with home truths…cements Dada as an audacious new talent…Just as in Blue Mist, Dada delivers complex ideas with a light touch so that there is no jarring didacticism. Of course, it is about so much more than speeding and road rage.
—Guardian
Snaps and fizzes and keeps nudging you off-balance…a fever dream for our multicultural times.
—The Times
A play with heart, wit, humour, and humanity.
—All That Dazzles
A clever, witty script that pushes its characters to their limits, out of their comfort zones and delivers some bizarre and absurd thrills en route…no one leaves unscathed in this sharp and contemporary comedy of manners.
—Reviews Hub
A genuine, always-engaging surprise: 80 clearsighted minutes, no interval, that cross the finish line with ease.
—London Theatre
Arguably the most entertaining speed awareness course you will ever witness…a clever play dashes from laugh-a-minute comedy to something far more detailed and sophisticated.
—Liam O'Dell, journalist
Mohamed-Zain Dada is a playwright, screenwriter, and cultural producer. His plays include: Speed (Bush Theatre, London, 2025); Dizzy (Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres, 2024); and Blue Mist (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2023).