Currency Press
0
  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • News
0
was successfully added to your cart.

Press enter to begin your search
Home Political / social themes BU21

BU21

$24.99

ISBN: 9781848426504
Author: By Stuart Slade
Publication Date: 5/01/2017
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 72pp.
Availability: Available

Clear
SKU: BK1480 Categories: Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes Tag: Nick Hern Books
  • Details
  • Additional information

‘So you know how on the news these days there’s just this endless stream of horrendous shit going down, like every single night? Suicide bombs, mass shootings, genocides, drone strikes, school massacres – it’s like the end of the world or something… And you’re kind of like – “Could I even cope if that stuff happened to me?”‘

Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heartbreaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very near future.

Stuart Slade’s play comprises six interlinking monologues. It premiered at Theatre503, London, in 2016, in a co-production with Kuleshov, before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios, London, in January 2017.

‘Brave, blackly comic… the stories here are gut-churningly vivid, compassionate, yet often wildly, horribly funny’
— The Times

‘Slade offers six close-up, compelling and often blackly comic stories and the result is a constantly sparky 90 minutes that delights in surprising and wrong-footing us’
— Evening Standard

‘Amongst the trauma and suffering lurks an awful lot of humour… gallingly graphic, desperately bleak, heartrendingly sad and quite, quite hilarious’
— Exeunt Magazine

‘The real star of this show is Stuart Slade’s script. It’s not just the pace that runs relentlessly across the 90 minutes all-through, but his ear for how people speak, their lexicons and their rhythms. An Alan Bennett for the Millennial Generation is a big label to put on a young playwright, but Slade is building a corpus of work to justify it… superb work’
— BroadwayWorld.com

‘Intelligent, questioning and very funny’
— The Stage

‘What a daring feat of writing this is… hauntingly credible, shudderingly so… captures the internal conflict of global terror: the sense that it was somehow deserved, the pull to be part of something, the impulse to laugh and to cry’
— WhatsOnStage

‘Strikingly real, shocking and even heartbreaking at times… the dialogue is snappy and at some points surprisingly funny despite the tragic subject matter… a haunting piece that in the light of current events, will stay with the audience’
— The Upcoming

Additional information

formats

ePub, Mobi, Print

More Titles To Explore

  • $27.99
    Acting and audition, Dance and Movement, Nick Hern Books

    Beyond Stanislavsky

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Drama, Full-length, Plays, Political / social themes

    Oslo

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Holy Sh!t

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Driftwood

    Select options
  • $27.99
    Writers and Writing

    The Writer’s Toolkit

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Auto/biography, Nick Hern Books, Theatre, Writers and Writing

    Conversations with Miller

    Select options
  • $27.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Shakespeare

    Richard II

    Select options
  • 9781848428263
    $24.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Ghost Stories

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Comedy, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Two-hander

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

    Select options
  • $27.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Significant female role/s

    The Authorised Kate Bane

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Nick Hern Books

    The P Word

    Select options
Previous - Next

Search titles

Product categories

  • Acting and audition 120
  • Activities and Games 13
  • Adaptations 150
  • Australian history 57
  • Australian Screen Classics 14
  • Auto/biography 16
  • Award winning 77
  • Black comedy 22
  • CALD writer 18
  • Children’s theatre 35
  • Comedy 261
  • Cross-artform plays 3
  • Currency Press 459
  • Dance and Movement 17
  • Directing and Theatremaking 78
  • Diverse sexuality themes 73
  • Drama 1261
  • Education 14
  • Epic 18
  • Farce 10
  • Full-length 702
  • Gender themes 110
  • Gift Cards 6
  • History and Criticism 31
  • Indigenous playwrights 30
  • Indigenous themes 53
  • Internationally produced 4
  • Monologues 36
  • Multicultural themes 89
  • Music 11
  • Musicals / plays with music 64
  • Mystery 25
  • Naturalism / realism 40
  • New Releases 24
  • Nick Hern Books 1186
  • One-act play 27
  • Physical theatre 9
  • Platform Papers 59
  • Play Collections 108
  • Plays 1327
  • Plays by women 255
  • Poetic 38
  • Political / social themes 431
  • Satire 19
  • Screen books 8
  • Screenplays 7
  • Shakespeare 62
  • Short play under 15 minutes 13
  • Significant female role/s 348
  • Solo performer 58
  • Surreal / magic realism 93
  • Theatre 64
  • Two-hander 64
  • Uncategorized 1
  • Verbatim / close work theatre 20
  • Very short play under 15 minutes 1
  • Voice and performance skills 13
  • Writers and Writing 22
  • Young adult 203

Newsletter

Signup to our Newsletter


By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: . You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

Links

Contact Us
Booksellers
History
Performance Rights
New Releases
Scripts

Links

The Currency Award
Authors
Submissions
Privacy Policy
Whats On Stage
Writers and Writing
Currency Press acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.  Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

© 2023 Currency Press. All Rights Reserved.

  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • News
  • Account details
  • Orders
  • Addresses
  • Payment methods
  • Lost password
  • Login
  • Logout

Contact Us

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877

Mailing Address:
PO Box 2287,
Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012

Street Address:
Level 1, 164 James St (between Pitt & George St),
Redfern, NSW 2016
ABN: 75 000 938 929

General Enquiries:
[email protected]

Trade Enquiries: [email protected]

Cart

Search

2020 Copyright Currency Press