Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and
screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together her
landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from 2003 to
2019. Beginning with her George Devine Award-winning play The Sugar
Syndrome it continues through her explosive look at the biggest
financial scandal in history, concluding with her pointed dramatization
of the one of the most shocking news stories of the 2010s.
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The Sugar Syndrome (2003)* Dani is on a mission. She's just 17, hates
her parents, skives college and prefers life in the chatrooms. What
she's looking for is someone honest and direct. Instead she finds Tim, a
man twice her age, who thinks she is 11 and a boy. What seems at first
to be a case of crossed wires, ends up as an unlikely, and unsettling
friendship between the two, which culminates in a shocking, and morally
challenging revelation.
Enron (2009) One of the most infamous scandals in financial history
became a theatrical epic in Enron, a dazzling exposition of the
shadowy mechanisms of economic deceit. Mixing classical tragedy with
savage comedy and surreal metaphor, Enron follows a group of flawed
men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the
tumultuous 1990s, and the financial chaos which has spilled over into
the new century.
The Effect (2012) a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan
and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to
the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and
Connie manage to throw the trial off course, much to the frustration of
the clinicians involved.
A Very Expensive Poison (2019) A shocking assassination in the heart
of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and
radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global
crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us
careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from
Moscow to Mayfair.
