Based on the story by China Miéville, Estate is an inner-city nightmare, a dark environmental parable, a modern fairy-tale told the old way: with teeth at the end…
Tensions are running high on an inner-city estate: penned-in like laboratory mice, people are turning vicious, taking out their frustrations on the animals around them.
A mysterious former resident of the estate returns to orchestrate a strange ritual, that appears to be part-spectacle, part-sacrifice: a majestic stag is set free to wander the streets at night, its antlers streaming with fire... This event – haunting and magnificent, but also brutal and cruel – leaves the community shaken and energised in different ways, not only the human observers, but also the local animals, who turn on their abusers and start to fight back…
Based on the story by China Miéville (The City & The City, Perdido Street Station), Estate stars Samuel Anderson (Doctor Who), Dominique Tipper (The Expanse) and Martin McCann ('71, Calibre)
