A savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell’s play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?
Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11. With compelling drive and theatrical daring, we are swept from cocktails at the Guggenheim to the hungry vacuum of Ground Zero. Stephen Sewell demands answers to some of the most urgent questions of our times. Where is the line between patriotism and nationalism? What happens when the Land of the Free makes such uncompromising statements as: ‘You’re either with us or against us’?
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America was the winner of the 2004 Louis Esson Prize for Drama and the 2004 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.
STEPHEN SEWELL has been responsible for some of the most provocative and electrifying Australian plays of the past twenty-five years. Among those published by Currency are The Father We Loved on a Beach by the Sea, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Traitors, Dust, The Garden of Granddaughters, The Sick Room and Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America. Recent plays include The Secret Death of Salvador Dali, The Three Furies and It Just Stopped. He has written a number of screenplays, including the acclaimed The Boys, adapted from Gordon Graham's play of the same name, both of which are published by Currency Press.
| Cast Info | 4F, 5M |
| Genres | Black Comedy |
| Themes | Political/Social themes |
| Audiences | Adult |
| Extent | 184 |
| Edition | Third |
| Size | 210 x 137 |
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