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"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 the Author
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 is a winner of the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts (Bush Theatre). In 2009, his play Cock won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, while Contractions was nominated for the TMA Best New Play award. Bartlett was Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Court in 2007, and is currently Associate Playwright at Paines Plough. He has also written seven plays for the radio, including Not Talking for which he won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes.
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- PublisherMethuen Drama
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1408108682
- ISBN 13 9781408108680
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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