Earthquakes In London
by Mike Bartlett

Name: Earthquakes In London
Brand: Mike Bartlett
SKU: 9781408132821
Rating: 3.8 (186 reviews)

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Highlights

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Large Cast

British

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the ambitious narrative and relevant themes of 'Earthquakes In London', noting how it explores complex societal issues. Many feel that the play's layers reveal themselves upon multiple readings or performances, and some express a desire to see it live. However, a few find certain aspects, particularly the fifth act, less successful in execution, highlighting a mix of engagement and confusion in its presentation.

Relevant societal topics Brilliantly written interweaving scenes Ambitious and innovative structure A bit confusing in parts

Synopsis

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....

You were the glimmer.

At the end of the tunnel.

And you went out.

An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again.

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.

Mike Bartlett's contemporary and directed dialogue combines a strong sense of humanity with epic ambition, as well as finely-aimed shafts of political comment embedded effortlessly into every scene.

Themes PR6102.A7838 E27 2010 Earthquakes Earthquakes--England--Drama