Earthquakes in London
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 10M, 7F
- ISBN: 9781408132821
An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.
It’s Cabaret, 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....
Earthquakes in London includes 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.
REVIEWS:
It’s Cabaret, 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....
Earthquakes in London includes 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.
REVIEWS:
"Mike Bartlett has created something completely different: a three hour play of startling ambition."
Evening Standard
"The theatrical equivalent of a thrilling roller coaster ride."
Daily Telegraph
Premiere Production:
National Theatre, London, 2010.
Characters
- Casting: 10M, 7F
- Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Large Cast
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