Lucy Prebble

The Effect (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nominated for Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024 Who I am Is not A side effect. Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors. Lucy Prebble's funny and intimate examination of love and ethics originally premiered in 2012, becoming an instant modern classic. This edition revised and updated edition is published to coincide with the production at the National Theatre, in August 2023.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350439719
• Artikelnr.: 68599372

Autorenporträt

Lucy Prebble lives in London. Her smash-hit play, Enron, transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2010 after sell out runs at both the Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre. In addition to the huge critical acclaim it has received, Enron also won the award for best New Play at the prestigious TMA Theatre Awards, and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award 2009. Lucy created the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, starring Billie Piper, which enjoyed three series and was sold to Showtime, the major US channel famed for its daring dramas. Lucy won the prestigious George Devine Award 2004 for her outstanding debut play The Sugar Syndrome in May 2004, followed by the TMA Award for Best New Play in October 2004. She also won the 2004 Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. Lucy was also nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the Olivier Awards 2004, shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2003 and nominated for the prestigious Evening Standard Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

CHRONOLOGY COMMENTARY Context Depression and Dopamine Anti-depressant
Medications Drug Trials Other Plays by Lucy Prebble Themes Is This Love
Real? Can We Trust Our Feelings? Other Artists Chemistry Religious vs
Materialist Views Laboratory vs Real World In Production Casting & the
Implications of Writing for Particular Actors Critical Response PLAY TEXT
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