Victory condition / by Chris Thorpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorpe, Chris, author.

Series:

Oberon modern plays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--21st century.

English drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

52 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Oberon Books Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

'What both Man and Woman share is a will to self-destruct. Thorpe very cleverly and very intelligently shows that their acts have a nihilistic self-defeating flavour... The title (3z (BVictory Condition (3y (Brefers to a crucial moment in a video game, when you can win or lose. In the play, the stakes are equally high. Imagine, implies Thorpe, that the future hangs on a series of moments when isolated ordinary individuals have the power to change everything. Imagine also that they are self-destructive... Thorpe’s text contains a couple of nods to Sarah Kane, and Caryl Churchill, but the dark angel hovering over the play is JG Ballard, the seer of Shepperton. Every action suggests that Ballardian sense that despite the feeling that everything is normal, we are all only a couple of steps away from apocalyptic breakdown. The system is fragile; weak... a powerful piece of new writing — and a stunning evocation of the nihilistic reality of the contemporary world.' Aleks Sierz, The Arts Desk.

ISBN:

1786821052

9781786821058

OCLC:

990505524