13
Author(s): Mike Bartlett
Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don't care if you seem outrageous or stupid...All that's needed, in the end, is belief. Morning in London, Autumn 2011. Across the city, people wake up from an identical, terrifying dream. At the same moment, a young man named John returns home after years away to find economic gloom, ineffective protest, and a Prime Minister about to declare war. But John has a vision for the future and a way to make it happen. Coincidences, omens and visions collide with political reality in this epic new play from the writer of Earthquakes in London. Set in a dark and magical landscape, it depicts a London both familiar and strange, a London staring into the void. In a year which has seen governments fall as the people take to the streets, 13 explores the meaning of personal responsibility, the hold that the past has over the future and the nature of belief itself.
Product Information
Published to coincide with the world premiere of the play, at the National Theatre directed by Thea Sharrock, 18 Oct 2011 - 8 Jan 2012. Mike Bartlett is probably the most exciting and acclaimed young writer with Methuen Drama. His plays consistently receive unanimous acclaim and high critical praise. Methuen Drama is also publishing Bartlett Plays 1 this Autumn to coincide with this production. Mike Bartlett has been described as 'one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times.' The Stage
Hailed by the Stage as 'one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times', Mike is currently Pearson Playwright in Residence at The Royal Court Theatre. He won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking, the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts and an Olivier Award for Cock. His other plays include My Child, Contractions (both Royal Court), Earthquakes in London (Headlong/National Theatre and Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough).
General Fields
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- : A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- : Methuen Drama
- : 30 September 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 9mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mike Bartlett
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 822.92
- : 144
