Duncan Macmillan: Plays One - (Oberon Modern Plays) by Duncan MacMillan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.

Review Quotes

"Duncan Macmillan's cracking play is a timely and gripping dissection of parenting and responsibility... This is a play that tests your liberal instincts to the limits." --The Guardian, on Monster

"An honest, original and pretty much irresistible tearjerker." --The New York Times ArtsBeat, on People, Places and Things

"A woundingly intense two-hander. It is the most beautiful, quietly shattering play of the year." --The Express, on Lungs

"If we look to theatre to increase our awareness of the human condition, the evening succeeds on all counts. [...] This talk, which deserves wide dissemination, is better than good: it is necessary." --The Guardian, on 2071

"Heart-wrenching, hilarious... one of the funniest plays you'll ever see about depression - and possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see, full stop." --The Guardian, on Every Brilliant Thing

"The writing is exquisitely painful. At times it feels like Macmillan has taken one of those little spoons, the ones with the serrated edge, for grapefruit, and scooped something out of you." --The Stage, on People, Places and Things

"It is a rigorous but impassioned cri de coeur [...] conveyed in a single voice, founded on a lifetime's experience of the workings of the planet, it has real power." --New Scientist, on 2071

"Duncan Macmillans cracking play is a timely and gripping dissection of parenting and responsibility This is a play that tests your liberal instincts to the limits." --The Guardian on Monster

"If we look to theatre to increase our awareness of the human condition, the evening succeeds on all counts. This talk, which deserves wide dissemination, is better than good: it is necessary." --The Guardian on 2071

"It is a rigorous but impassioned cri de coeur [ ] conveyed in a single voice, founded on a lifetime's experience of the workings of the planet, it has real power." --New Scientist on 2071

"Heart-wrenching, hilarious... one of the funniest plays youll ever see about depression and possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see, full stop." --The Guardian on Every Brilliant Thing

"Duncan Macmillan's cracking play is a timely and gripping dissection of parenting and responsibility. This is a play that tests your liberal instincts to the limits." --The Guardian on Monster

"One of the most powerful and painfully funny plays I've ever seen." --New York Times on People, Places and Things

About the Author

Duncan Macmillan is an award winning writer and director. Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal Exchange, he has completed attachments at the National Theatre and the Royal Court/BBC, is a member of the Old Vic New Voices Company and a fellow of the TS Eliot UK/US Exchange. He is the winner of two Bruntwood Playwriting Awards, the Old Vic Big Ambition Award, a Pearson Residency Award, 'The 50' Bursary, and has been nominated in the Best New Play in the MEN Awards.