The Child Buyer
John Hersey
The Experiment
by Mark Ravenhill
Highlights
One Act
30 mins Present Day Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
Synopsis
If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it?
That’s the question posed by the narrator of this story, their personal complicity in the experience a slippery possibility.
Press Reviews
"Mark Ravenhill keeps things creepy in his monologue, The Experiment, in which he plays the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator… The story, and the narrator's level of complicity, keeps shifting. Ravenhill asks us to consider which version, if any, might be acceptable, and how much we might be willing to avert our eyes from for the greater good."
— Independent
"Crammed with slippery language, it evokes a vortex of atrocity from fairytales to Mengele and Medea."
— The Times
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The Experiment is a play written by Mark Ravenhill and published by Samuel French .
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