The Children

by Lucy Kirkwood

Overview

'Retired people are like nuclear power stations. They like to live by the sea.'

Two ageing nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request.

Lucy Kirkwood's play The Children premiered at the Royal Court, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 17 November 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780018416
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	11/17/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	172 KB

About the Author

Lucy Kirkwood’s plays include The Children (Royal Court); Chimerica (Almeida/West End); NSFW (Royal Court); small hours (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead); Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre); Bloody Wimmin, as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle); it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break/Arcola); Hedda (Gate, London); Tinderbox (Bush). it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now won the 2012 John Whiting Award, and was nominated for the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Chimerica won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2013 Evening Standard Best Play Award, the 2014 Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Editorial Reviews

"All kinds of undercurrents swirl beneath the conversational ebbs and flows, by turns convivial and toxic... It displays a fine eye for niggling details as well as the broader picture. There's a rare warmth, too, evidenced by a glorious, tragicomic and nostalgic dance-along to James Brown." - Telegraph

Telegraph

"[Kirkwood] has... written a genuinely disturbing play: one not simply about nuclear power but about the heavy price we may pay in the future for the profligacy of the present. Whether you are a parent or not, the play leaves you an abundance of ideas on which to ruminate." - Guardian

Guardian