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Contractions Mike Bartlett

Contractions By Mike Bartlett

Contractions by Mike Bartlett

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Contractions, a new play by Mike Bartlett, will be published to coincide with the production at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 29 May - 14 June 2008.

Contractions Summary

Contractions by Mike Bartlett

Contractions, a new play by Mike Bartlett, will be published to coincide with the production at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 29 May - 14 June 2008. 'Come in. Sit down. How are you?' Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved. An ink-black comedy about work and play, which invites the audience to a meeting at the centre of the Royal Court building.

Contractions Reviews

An intensely disturbing experience...We are careering towards a society, Bartlett implies, that sees all and understands nothing...It's grotesquely funny - and it chills to the bone. Sam Marlowe, The Times, 05.06.08 Contradictions...speaks with brutally entertaining, bullet-point directness to the slaving, anxiety-ridden middle-classes...This two-hander is often ferociously funny while being absolutely appalling...Bartlett rustles up one humiliation after another - achieving an Orwellian finesse in his depiction of absolute power. The needling precision of of Bartlett's language and the toxic swirling clouds of subtext that lie couched in every silence. Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 05.06.08 Bartlett's chilling black comedy [is] an allegoric satire upon a world in which freedom's boundaries close in upon you and an individual's intimate relations are subject to surveillance and control by omnipotent authority. Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 05.06.08 Bartlett, in the manner of early absurdist plays by Havel or Ionesco, takes a plausible premise to a lethal conclusion. Michael Billington, Guardian, 05.06.08 What we witness here is a form of torture, for all its apparent civility. Paul Taylor, Independent, 06.06.08

About Mike Bartlett

Mike Barlett's debut, My Child (Royal Court, May 2007) saw him hailed by The Stage as 'one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times'. He has worked with various theatres since graduating, including Paines Plough, the Royal Court, Soho and Hampstead. He is a winner of the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts (Bush Theatre, February 2008), and is currently participating in the prestigious Pearson Playwrights Scheme. He won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for his radio play, Not Talking.

Additional information

NPB9781408108680
9781408108680
1408108682
Contractions by Mike Bartlett
Mike Bartlett
Modern Plays
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20080529
64
N/A
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