A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky
From: Friday, 7th May 2010
To: Saturday, 5 June 2010
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Synopsis
If it were all to end... Where would you go? Who would you see? What would you do? On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Three of the UK's leading playwrights come together to create an epic play about the very end of time. Ages 14+
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 13 May 2010
The new play at the Lyric Hammersmith, A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, is a fine collaboration between David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens. And, as film critic Barry Norman used to say, why not? The Elizabethans and Jacobeans wrote together, so did Arden and D’Arcy, Hare and Brenton, and several other fringe dramatists in the 1970s.
The intrepid trio of good friends started off in the National Theatre studio sharing a pen and a roll of wallpaper. They ended with a trenchant domestic epic played out in the shadow of the apocalypse.
Three weeks before the cosmic string destroys the universe, the five Benton brothers converge on the family farm and their ancient mother, unravelling old arguments, finding new paths, seeking closure, if not reconciliation.
Here are characters etched in sharp relief, having the conversations we all know we should have but probably never will. This sense of concentration and valedictory r...
Latest User Review
smithers - 29 May 2010:
Dreadful- trite, pretentious writing and turgid direction. Very disappointing....
Cast
Kirsty Bushell
Nigel Cooke
Lisa Diveney
Harry McEntire
Ann Mitchell
Tom Mothersdale
Pearce Quigley
Tanya Moodie
Andrew Sheridan
Rupert Simonian
Alan Williams
Creative
David Eldridge (Author)
Robert Holman (Author)
Simon Stephens (Author)
Lyric Hammersmith (Producer)
Sean Holmes (Director)
Jon Bausor (Design)
Adam Silverman (Lighting)
Nick Manning (Sound)
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