The Most Humane Way to Kill A Lobster / Edition 1

by Duncan Macmillan

Overview

"You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling water it doesn't feel a thing. I suppose that this is how I've felt recently. I've been in some deep freeze and suddenly I can feel steam in my face, I'm falling headlong into scalding water."
It's 2005, the sun is shining and Loretta is planning to make her daughter's favourite meal. But when Sophie stops talking to her, children start vanishing, and rooms begin to cry, Loretta can't help feeling that something is up and that she might have something to do with it.
A play about one woman's jourbaney back to her childhood, to stop her past flooding into the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840025590
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/01/2006
Series:	Oberon Modern Plays
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

Duncan Macmillan's work has been performed throughout the world, including at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Barbican, St Ann's Warehouse, Melbourbane Theatre Company, Berliner Ensemble, Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Schauspielhaus Ko ln, Burgtheater Vienna, Vesturport, Kansallisteatteri, Nationaltheatret Oslo and in the repertory of the Schaubu hne Berlin, as well as the Edinburgh Festival, the Manchester International Festival, Salzburg Festival, Festival d'Avignon and Theatertreffen, in the West End and on Broadway.
His plays include Lungs; People, Places and Things; Every Brilliant Thing; Rosmersholm (adapt. Henrik Ibsen); 1984 (adapt. George Orwell, co-written and co-directed with Robert Icke); City Of Glass (adapt. Paul Auster) and 2071 (co-written with Chris Rapley), all published by Oberon Books. Other plays include The Forbidden Zone; Wunschloses Unglu ck (adapt. Peter Handke); Reise Durch die Nacht (adapt. Friederike Mayro cker). Both 1984 and People, Places and Things were nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards.