Mosquitoes

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

A play about families and particle physics.Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs Boson particle.Jenny is her sister. She lives in Luton. She spends a lot of time Googling.When tragedy throws them together, the collision threatens them all with chaos.Lucy Kirkwood's play Mosquitoes premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2017, in a production featuring Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams, and directed by Rufus Norris.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-20
Mått:129 x 198 x 10 mm
Vikt:150 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:NHB Modern Plays
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Nick Hern Books
ISBN:9781848425828

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Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: The Human Body (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2024); Rapture (promoted as That Is Not Who I Am, Royal Court Theatre, London, 2022); The Welkin (National Theatre, London 2020); Mosquitoes (National Theatre, 2017); The Children (Royal Court Theatre, 2016); Chimerica (Almeida Theatre & West End, 2013; winner of 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); NSFW (Royal Court, 2012); small hours (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Beauty and the Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre, 2010); Bloody Wimmin, as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre, 2010); it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break & Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the 2012 John Whiting Award); Hedda (Gate Theatre, London, 2008); and Tinderbox (Bush Theatre, 2008).She won the inaugural Berwin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.

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'Fascinating… Lucy Kirkwood is a dramatist of dauntless ambition'

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