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Contractions

  • Mike Bartlett
  • Short Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2F
  • ISBN: 9781408108680

An ink-black comedy about the boundaries between work and play.

  • Short Play
  • Drama, Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
An ink-black comedy about the boundaries between work and play.

Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved.

Mike Bartlett's stage play Contractions was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2008. It was developed from an earlier radio play, Love Contract, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.

REVIEWS:

"Brutally entertaining... an extraordinary gift for satire... often ferociously funny while being absolutely appalling."

 Daily Telegraph

"Grotesquely funny – and it chills to the bone."

 Times

Premiere Production: Royal Court Theatre, London, 2008.
  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female, Good role(s) for female performers

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