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Earthquakes in London
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- Book Synopsis
- It'sCabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone…. You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out.An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again.Earthquakes in Londonincludes burlesque strip shows, bad dreams, social breakdown, population explosion, worldwide paranoia. It is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe.Mike Bartlett's contemporary and directed dialogue combines a strong sense of humanity with epic ambition, as well as finely-aimed shafts of political comment embedded effortlessly into every scene. Earthquakes in Londonrepresents modern playwriting at its most exciting and ambitious.
- About The Author
- Hailed by the Stageas 'one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times', Mike is currently Pearson Playwright in Residence at The Royal Court Theatre. He won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking, the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefactsand an Olivier Award for Cock.His other plays include My Child, Contractions (both Royal Court),Earthquakes in London(Headlong/National Theatre and Love, Love, Love(Paines Plough).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781408132821
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, (02 August 2010)
- Number of Pages
- 167
- Weight
- 172 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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