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- Title
- The Effect
- Author
- Prebble, Lucy
- Publisher
- Dramatist's Play Service
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822236249
- ISBN 13
- 9780822236245
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 is the latest play from Lucy Prebble, and reunites Enron's writer and director once more delivering a vibrant theatrical exploration into the human brain via the heart. This world premiere is co-produced by Headlong and will be performed at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre from November 2012-23 February 2013, starring Billie Piper and Jonjo O'Neill.
The Guardian has selected The Effect as one of the highlights of 'the best theatre for autumn 2012' (2/9/12).
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Review
'Lucy Prebble's follow-up to Enron is a scintillating exploration of the clash between scientific advance and human impulse ... it demonstrates the same vivid, provocative intelligence' -- Sarah Hemming Financial Times 20121114
'This four-hander brings the author's agile wit, intellectual penetration and a fresh, deeply affecting empathy to bear on a fundamentally much more complex topic than finance: brain chemistry and what it can - and cannot - tell us about the causes of severe depression and the experience of being in love ... This is a provocative and challenging play ... it ends in edgy gesture of good sense that made me feel like cheering.' -- Paul Taylor Independent 20121114
'As in Enron, Prebble writes with a really impressive command of complex ideas, and her mix of the personal and the political is here nearly perfect ... The result is humane and compelling ... intensive, stimulating and moving ... what might well be the best new play of the year.' -- Aleks Sierz Arts Desk 20121114
'After her hit with Enron, Lucy Prebble turns to medicine and the mind - to great effect ... The Effect is a four-hander that hopscotches confidently across themes of neurology, psychopharmacology, depression, love and guilt ... The Effect moves you to thought, sometimes to strong feeling.' -- Mazie Szalwinska The Sunday Times 20121118
'Prebble has written a profound and stirring play. The material is complex but always accessible, the drama serious and informative yet deeply human, with the odd jolt of piercing humour. The Effect confirms her as one of the most intelligent voices in British theatre.' -- Henry Hitchings Evening Standard 20121114
'Incisive dialogue ... Prebble really researches and the range of her subjects suggests she will have a long theatrical life.' -- Susannah Clapp Observer 20121118
'The Effect is a headlong delve into the mysteries of the human brain. And Prebble pulls it off with assurance, tickling our cerebellums in the first half, before tugging on our heartstrings in the second ... heartbreaking ... [it has] a heart as well as a brain.' --Andrzej Lukowski Time Out 20121120
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