Kursk
by Bryony Lavery

Name: Kursk
Brand: Bryony Lavery
SKU: 9781840029369
Rating: 4.33 (5 reviews)

Highlights

British

What readers are saying

Readers find the play's unique presentation engaging, with an innovative use of audience participation that enhances the experience. The subject matter, focusing on a UK nuclear attack submarine, is deemed intriguing and successful in execution, despite limited publicity and audience size.

Innovative audience participationEngaging subject matterSuccessful executionLimited publicity and audience size

Synopsis

A play by Bryony Lavery in collaboration with Sound&Fury.

A submarine is on patrol in the arctic.

The crew sleep, eat, drill, long for word from home, and silently shadow their target.

Their lives, at once extraordinary and mundane, are shattered by a global crisis from which uniquely personal stories emerge.

Inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000, in collaboration with Sound&Fury, Bryony Lavery's play imagines the life of submariners, deep below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the cold war.

Kursk was iproduced at the Young Vic Theatre 2009 and revived to great acclaim in 2010.

ThemesCold War--Drama Cold War PR6062 Strategic aspects Submariners--Russia--Drama Submariners