Earthquakes in London
Cast: 7f 10m, doubling, large cast possible
Staging: the stage should overflow with scenery, sound, backdrops, lighting, projection, etc
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
1 Nov 2010
Earthquakes in London
Paperback
An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.
Mike Bartlett's play Earthquakes in London includes burlesque strip shows, bad dreams, social breakdown, population explosion, worldwide paranoia. It is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe.
The play was premiered at the National Theatre, London, in August 2010 in a co-production with Headlong, directed by Rupert Goold.
Earthquakes in London is published by Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
It is also available in the Nick Hern Books volume Mike Bartlett Plays: Two.
'It’s Cabaret, we’ve got our heads down and we’re dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn’t have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone...'
'Mike Bartlett has created something completely different: a three hour play of startling ambition'
Evening Standard'The theatrical equivalent of a thrilling roller coaster ride... provides a great shot of adrenalin-fuelled excitement... a rush of invention, humour and raw emotion'
Daily Telegraph'Bartlett beautifully combines domestic and cosmic issues... It is, in every sense, a big play that has the courage of its convictions'
GuardianCast: 7f 10m, doubling, large cast possible
Staging:the stage should overflow with scenery, sound, backdrops, lighting, projection, etc
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
1 Nov 2010
