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Zusatztext Having tackled climate change in Earthquakes in London ! [Mike Bartlett] now comes up with another big phantasmagoric fable! one that acquires urgency and force by asking if there is any alternative to freemarket capitalism and unbridled military adventurism... Bartlett has pinned down! in a way few dramatists recently have! the unease that is currently in the air: the sensation that we are sleep-walking into some kind of disaster that may stem from economic collapse! environmental upheaval or the logical extension of the war on terror. Bartlett has his finger on the pulse... [He] has written a powerful! disturbing play about the values by which we live and one that passionately argues for some kind of spiritual revolution. Informationen zum Autor Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. Theatre includes: Scandaltown ( Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); The 47th (The Old Vic); Cock (The Ambassadors’ Theatre/Royal Court); Mrs Delgado (Arts at the Old Fire Station/Theatre Royal Bath/Oxford Playhouse); Albion, Game (Almeida); Snowflake (Arts at the Old Fire Station); Wild (Hampstead Theatre); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre/Music Box Theatre, New York); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford); Bull (Sheffield Theatres/Off Broadway/Young Vic); Medea (Headlong/Glasgow Citizens/Watford/Warwick); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/Gielgud Theatre); 13 (Royal Court); Decade (Headlong); Earthquakes in London (Headlong, National Theatre); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough / Plymouth Theatre Royal/Royal Court/Roundabout Theatre Company, New York/Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); Contractions (Royal Court/Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); My Child (Royal Court); Artefacts (Bush Theatre/ Nabokov); Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster SE2, King Charles III, Doctor Foster SE1 (Drama Republic/BBC); Sticks and Stones, Trauma (Tall Story Pictures/ITV); Press (Lookout Point/BBC). Klappentext Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don't care if you seem outrageous or stupid... All that's needed, in the end, is belief. An identical, terrifying dream haunts Londoners in the midst of economic gloom and ineffective protest. Whilst the prime minister considers a preventive war, a young man returns home with a vision for the future.Coincidences, omens and visions collide with political reality in this epic new play from the writer of Earthquakes in London . Set in a dark and magical landscape, it depicts a London both familiar and strange, a London staring into the void. In a year which has seen governments fall as the people take to the streets, 13 explores the meaning of personal responsibility, the hold that the past has over the future and the nature of belief itself.An epic look at faith, politics and leadership from the stellar playwright Mike Bartlett. Zusammenfassung Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don't care if you seem outrageous or stupid... All that's needed, in the end, is belief. An identical, terrifying dream haunts Londoners in the midst of economic gloom and ineffective protest. Whilst the prime minister considers a preventive war, a young man returns home with a vision for the future.Coincidences, omens and visions collide with political reality in this epic new play from the writer of Earthquakes in London . Set in a dark and magical landscape, it depicts a London both familiar and strange, a London staring into the void. In a year which has seen governments fall as the people take to the streets, 13 explores the meaning of personal responsibility, the hold that the past has over the future and the nature of belief itself....