X
by Alistair Mcdowall

X Book Cover
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Synopsis

It's a tax write-off.

This is where they send the new, the under-qualified, the old.

And most of all the British.

Mars is full of blonde Americans.

It's like they're building the master race out there.

Billions of miles from home, the lone research base on Pluto has lost contact with Earth.

Unable to leave or send for help, the skeleton crew sit waiting.

Waiting.

Waiting long enough for time to start eating away at them.

To lose all sense of it.

To start seeing things in the dark outside.

Alistair McDowall's play X premiered at the Royal Court on 30 March 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.

Themes

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 5 total roles, 2 female and 3 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Methuen
Year Published
2016
ISBN 10
1350004626
ISBN 13
9781350004627
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
176 pages
Language
English
LCC
PR6113.C3797
eISBN 13
9781350004634
Print
X is a British teenage play written by and published by Methuen in 2016. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781350004627 and an ISBN-10 of 1350004626.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Google Play with an ISBN-13 of 9781350004634.

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