Numbers
by Kieron Barry

Name: Numbers
Brand: Kieron Barry
SKU: 9780573702563
Rating: 3.94 (14 reviews)

Highlights

Female

One Act 60 mins Present Day All Women Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Evening Standard Award

In 2009 Kieron Barry was nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. He was also made a Norman Mailer Fellow.

Synopsis

This brutal and hilarious one-act play was declared one of the greatest plays of all time for women in Lucy Kerbel’s volume 100 Great Plays For Women .

Set in an all-girls’ boarding school, Numbers depicts a vicious battle of wills between four Sixth Form girls in the hour before a new Head Girl is announced.

As the girls vie for the coveted position, old friendships and loyalties give way to ambition and betrayal.

Nothing is too extreme in a battle which increasingly proves less about the disputed role and more about how the girls’ conflicting ideologies of class, privilege and morality will affect the rest of their lives.

Press Reviews

"Clever, fast-paced, witty and caustic… well-crafted and wonderfully funny.” – Time Out London“A wonderfully crafted, well-constructed and deftly thought-out piece of theatre” – The Stage, London“Anyone who has ever set foot in an all-girls school will recognise the noxious combination of competition, self-interest, insecurity and downright viciousness that Kieron Barry displays with such devastating accuracy in Numbers, and while the play is laugh-out-loud funny, it remains a testament to the ferocity of girls and their own particular brand of warfare against one another... Sharp and funny, terrifying and inspiring, it is an impressive account of the cruel sophistication, wit and savagery with which young women can destroy one another."
— 100 Great Plays For Women, Lucy Kerbel