Artefacts

Cast: 4f 1m

Staging: can be simply staged

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Imprint: Methuen Drama
Paperback, 80 pages ISBN: 9781408106778Publication Date:
1 Dec 2010
£11.99
First Staged:
Bush Theatre, London, 2008

Artefacts

By Mike Bartlett

Paperback £11.99

Sixteen-year-old Kelly has never known her Dad. It turns out he's from Iraq, which her mum never mentioned, and he's brought an ancient Mesopotamian vase as some kind of present. But Kelly doesn't want a vase, she wants her dad to stay and get to know her. It's not the reunion either of them expected and for Kelly it's the beginning of an epic and dangerous journey.

Mike Bartlett's play Artefacts was first staged by nabokov and the Bush Theatre at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2008.

This edition of the play is published by Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Press Quotes

'I was left full of admiration for this dramatist's combination of power and precision... this is dramatic writing of a very high order indeed'

Daily Telegraph

'I cannot recall when I last saw so much, on both narrative and thematic levels, crammed into a one-act 80-minute play without the whole thing bursting messily under the strain'

Financial Times

Cast: 4f 1m

Staging:can be simply staged

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Imprint: Methuen Drama
Paperback,80 pages ISBN: 9781408106778Publication Date:
1 Dec 2010
£11.99

Also by Mike Bartlett:

Doctor Foster: The Scripts
Bull
Not Talking
An Intervention
Mike Bartlett Plays: Two
Decade
Scandaltown
Medea
Vassa
Phoenix
My Child
The 47th
Love, Love, Love
Wild
King Charles III
Game
Albion
Mrs Delgado
Snowflake
Earthquakes in London
Cock
13
Contractions

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