The Comeuppance
$31.86
- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2024
Summary
‘I guess this is just that age. The Age of Shit Showing Up. The Age of Bad Choices Seeking Their Consequences.’
Autumn 2022. A group of friends gathering hours before their high-school reunion.
Twenty years have passed since graduation: some have had children; some have moved to the other side of the world; some have been to war.
But there’s another presence in their midst. And as they catch up and reminisce, it only takes a scratch for the scars of those school days t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839043505 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839043504 |
| Author: | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 109g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘A meditation on memory, ageing and lost hopes… Jacobs-Jenkins’s sharply sculpted dialogue teases out the tensions that exist beneath the bonhomie… this is a writer who enjoys playing games with conventions. Nothing is quite what it seems… a piece which continually plays tricks with perspective’
* The Times *‘Rich and alive… flares with subtle brilliance… The Comeuppance is good theatre with eloquent outbursts and awkward wit. Its themes play in the mind after the curtain comes down and it is a relief to see theatre dealing with the Covid years, staring its death in the face’
* Guardian *‘Dark but laugh-aloud drama’
* Evening Standard *‘A bold look at a painful school reunion with a daring theatrical flourish’
* Telegraph *‘A post-Covid play haunted by death, rich in ideas, sometimes profound’
* Independent *‘An eerie drama of mortality and memory that exerts an insidious fascination… a melancholic, meditative piece with a dash of gallows humour; an elegant danse macabre… Jacobs-Jenkins spins the interconnecting threads of memory and attachment with arachnid delicacy and skill… hypnotic and brooding’
* The Stage *‘A smart dark comedy about millennials hitting middle-age… droll and compelling’
* Time Out *‘Waspishly humorous and darkly metaphysical’
* Financial Times *‘Compelling… original and thought-provoking… entertaining yet hard-hitting’
* Broadway World *‘Gripping and funny… inventively grapples with universal fears of mortality’
* Everything Theatre *‘Searingly funny and abruptly sad’
* Culture Whisper *‘An eloquently rueful meditation on how briskly and brutally youthful dreams evaporate… sharply perceptive… hits an emotional jackpot’
* iNews *‘Funny and engaging’
* British Theatre Guide *Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His other plays include An Octoroon, Gloria and Appropriate.
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