An Intervention
$27.65
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2014
Summary
A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.
One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.
Mike Bartlett’s play An Intervention premiered at the Watford Palace Theatre in April 2014, in a co-production with Paines Plough.
‘Engaged, entertaining and forthright… not only politically engaged but…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848423831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848423837 |
| Author: | Mike Bartlett |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 198mm x 128mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘incisive, intimate, closely focused… has Bartlett’s astute wit and extraordinary ability to pinpoint the way maturity can suddenly slip away’
‘Engaged, entertaining and forthright… not only politically engaged but also fiercely uncompromising in its mission to entertain’
* Exeunt Magazine *‘Incisive, intimate, closely focused… has Bartlett’s astute wit and extraordinary ability to pinpoint the way maturity can suddenly slip away’
* Financial Times *‘Superb… intensely dramatic’
* WhatsOnStage *‘Nimble and elegant… [a] smart two-hander’
* The Stage *About The Author
Mike Bartlett
Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen.Theatre includes: Juniper Blood (Donmar Warehouse, 2025); Unicorn (West End, 2025); Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith, 2022); The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Mrs Delgado (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2021); Snowflake (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2018); Albion (Almeida Theatre, London, 2017); Wild (Hampstead Theatre, 2016); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Bull (Sheffield Theatres, 2013); Medea (Headlong, 2012); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Decade (Headlong, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong & National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough & Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Contractions (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2008); Artefacts (Bush Theatre & Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007).Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma and Press.
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