The Children (TCG Edition)

ISBN: 1559365773

Author: Kirkwood, Lucy

Condition: New

A richly suggestive and beautifully written piece of work, provoking questions that will continue to nag and expand in your mindThe genius of the play is to embed its pressingly topical preoccupations in a humane, tragicomic scenario that is never, despite the circumstances, portentous or clangingly apocalyptic in toneThe Children consolidates my view that Kirkwood is the most rewarding dramatist of her generation. -IndependentSly, gripping, darkly funnyThis is sci-fi kitted out with real people, real dilemmas, real scope. Its really good. -The TimesGrips compulsivelyGenuinely disturbingLeaves you an abundance of ideas on which to ruminate. -GuardianA far-reaching, unsettling play about legacy, survival and responsibilityDeceptively lightly written and often tartly funnyKirkwood tackles huge themes and poses tough, even shocking questions, but weaves them into a droll script that both chastises and sympathises with her characters -Financial TimesRetired people are like nuclear power stations. We like to live by the sea.Two retired nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request.At our time of life we simply cannot deal with this shit.Lucy Kirkwoods previous plays include Chimerica (winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play, the Evening Standard Award, the Critics Circle Best New Play Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), small hours, NSFW, and it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now. The Children premiered at the Royal Court, London, and will receive its US premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in the fall of 2017.