Lucy Prebble

The Effect

Mitarbeit:Gillinson, Miriam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect.The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction.Following on from the critical and commercial success of Enron, The Effect offers a vibrant theatrical exploration into the human brain via the heart. It received its world premiere at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in November 2012, starring Billie Piper and Jonjo O'Neill. It is published here in the Modern Classics series alongside an introduction by Miriam Gillinson.

Produktdetails

• Modern Classics
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Specialist / Methuen Drama
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 97g
• ISBN-13: 9781474272018
• ISBN-10: 1474272010
• Artikelnr.: 43777521

Autorenporträt

Lucy Prebble

Rezensionen

Lucy Prebble is a playwright blessed with an exceptionally fine mind . . . the play struck me as being both wise and sane, raising more questions than it answers, to be sure, but that seems a sign of integrity in a work dealing with such a complex subject. But what makes The Effect so special, is that as well as being a play of ideas, it is also deeply moving, both in its depiction of the giddy wonder of love, and also in its account of the terrifying wasteland of depression itself . . . The Effect is an astonishingly rich and rewarding play, as intelligent as it is deeply felt. Daily Telegraph