Albion

by Mike Bartlett

Overview

In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion premiered in October 2017 at the Almeida Theatre in London to critical acclaim. The Independent called it "A work of deeply absorbing emotional richness and symphonic density."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848427150
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	10/23/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. His theatre work includes: The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong and National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough and Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Artefacts (Bush Theatre and Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007). For television, he's worked on: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma, and Press.

Interviews

"Smartly distills troubled England down to an elegiac microcosm… a thoughtful, layered interrogation."

Editorial Reviews

"Outstanding, thrillingly ambitious theatre."

Broadway World

"A work of deeply absorbing emotional richness and symphonic density."

Independent Whig.

"[Has] a deeply reflective and humane quality to it: Bartlett draws his confused characters with a Chekhovian mix of wit and compassion... explores national identity through private mourning, and the meaning of the garden shifts, grows and deepens with the seasons."

Financial Times

"Scintillating... in the sometimes abrasive but always compelling Audrey, Bartlett has written a richly imagined female lead who can be mentioned in the same breath as the self-dramatizing Arkadina in The Seagull."

New York Times

"[Has] a deeply reflective and humane quality to it: Bartlett draws his confused characters with a Chekhovian mix of wit and compassion... explores national identity through private mourning, and the meaning of the garden shifts, grows and deepens with the seasons."

Financial Times

"A work of deeply absorbing emotional richness and symphonic density."

Independent

"[Has] a deeply reflective and humane quality to it: Bartlett draws his confused characters with a Chekhovian mix of wit and compassion... explores national identity through private mourning, and the meaning of the garden shifts, grows and deepens with the seasons." -- Financial Times

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