(Not) the End of the World

Cast: 3-4f

Staging: Fluid staging (primary location: an office on a university campus)

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

Ebook, ISBN: 9781788507820Publication Date:
22 Feb 2024
£7.99 £6.39You save £1.60 (20%)
First Staged:
Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021

(Not) the End of the World

By Chris Bush

Ebook £7.99£6.39

A daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.

Chris Bush's play Not the End of the World was first staged at the Schaubühne in Berlin in September 2021, directed by Katie Mitchell.

The play is also available in the volume Chris Bush Plays: One.

Press Quotes

'Staggering… Bush's remarkable text melds a ruthless structural concept with exquisite lyricism'

Guardian

'A play of endless permutations, interrogating the idea of choice and individual agency in the face of planetary crisis... Bush's fractal text, like a shattered sheet of ice, combines vivid passages about embracing the paths unchosen with a stark account of the consequences of vanishing marine life and rising temperatures. It is intentionally contradictory, at once putting the onus on the individual, while highlighting the need for change at a governmental level. It deftly captures these tensions, while articulating the mental tug of war underlining many of our decisions'

The Stage

Cast: 3-4f

Staging:Fluid staging (primary location: an office on a university campus)

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

Ebook,ISBN: 9781788507820Publication Date:
22 Feb 2024
£7.99 £6.39You save £1.60 (20%)

Also by Chris Bush:

Jane Eyre
Steel
The Changing Room
Standing at the Sky's Edge
The Assassination of Katie Hopkins
A Dream
Faustus: That Damned Woman
The Last Noël
Paper
Rock / Paper / Scissors
Hungry
Rock
Scissors
Chris Bush Plays: One
Nine Lessons and Carols
Standing at the Sky's Edge

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