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Atheist, The

  • Ronan Noone
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M
  • ISBN: 9780822223047

A searing and hilarious play about catching the perfect headline, whatever the cost.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Flexible Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Augustine Early, a crooked journalist, has made an art of clawing his way up the professional ladder. When he turns a politician’s tawdry predilections into front-page news, the scandal threatens to undo the one person he thought was immune. A searing and hilarious play about catching the perfect headline, whatever the cost.

REVIEWS:

"Viciously funny…he is despicable but you want to go on despising him all night."

Boston Globe

"…the gutter-lyrical fireworks of the rogue male ego…a compelling voice…"

Time Out London

"…the most alluringly sleazy newshound this side of the twenty-first century."

Boston Herald

"…The Atheist is not to be condemned but savoured."

Curtainup

"…accomplishes the Olympian task of making an utter bastard compelling."

Variety

"…[a] riveting one person show…"

TheaterMania

  • Casting: 1M
  • Casting Attributes: All Male, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

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Augustine Early, a crooked journalist, has made an art of clawing his way up the professional ladder. When he turns a politician’s tawdry predilections into front-page news, the scandal threatens to undo the one person he thought was immune. A searing and hilarious play about catching the perfect headline, whatever the cost.

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