It Just Stopped
by Stephen Sewell

It Just Stopped Book Cover
It Just Stopped Cover

Synopsis

A savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery.

Sewell’s play is funny and shocking in turn.

It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?

Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11.

With compelling drive and theatrical daring, we are swept from cocktails at the Guggenheim to the hungry vacuum of Ground Zero.

Stephen Sewell demands answers to some of the most urgent questions of our times.

Where is the line between patriotism and nationalism?

What happens when the Land of the Free makes such uncompromising statements as: ‘You’re either with us or against us’?

Themes

Publication

Year Published
2007
ISBN 10
086819817X
ISBN 13
9780868198170
Binding
Paperback
Edition
UK ed.
Print Length
170 pages
Place Published
Sydney
Language
English
LCCN
2008426620
LCC
PR9619.3.S44 I8 2007
Print
It Just Stopped is a Australian and New Zealand play written by and published by Currency Press in Sydney, 2007. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780868198170 and an ISBN-10 of 086819817X.
Digital
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