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The Effect

Lucy Prebble

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Description for The Effect Paperback. Series: Modern Classics. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 199 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92.
I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect. The Effect is 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. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical ... Read more

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Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Series

Modern Classics

Condition

New

Number of Pages

104

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781474272018

SKU

V9781474272018

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About Lucy Prebble

Lucy Prebble's smash-hit play, Enron, transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2010 after sell out runs at both the Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre winning the award for best New Play at the prestigious TMA Theatre Awards, and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award 2009. In 2004 Prebble won the prestigious George ... Read more

Reviews for The Effect

Lucy Prebble is a playwright blessed with an exceptionally fine mind . . . the play struck me as being both wise and sane, raising more questions than it answers, to be sure, but that seems a sign of integrity in a work dealing with such a complex subject. But what makes The Effect so special, is ... Read morethat as well as being a play of ideas, it is also deeply moving, both in its depiction of the giddy wonder of love, and also in its account of the terrifying wasteland of depression itself . . . The Effect is an astonishingly rich and rewarding play, as intelligent as it is deeply felt.
Daily Telegraph
Lucy Prebble's follow-up to Enron is a scintillating exploration of the clash between scientific advance and human impulse ... it demonstrates the same vivid, provocative intelligence
Financial Times
This four-hander brings the author's agile wit, intellectual penetration and a fresh, deeply affecting empathy to bear on a fundamentally much more complex topic than finance: brain chemistry and what it can - and cannot - tell us about the causes of severe depression and the experience of being in love ... This is a provocative and challenging play ... it ends in edgy gesture of good sense that made me feel like cheering.
Independent
After her hit with Enron, Lucy Prebble turns to medicine and the mind - to great effect ... The Effect is a four-hander that hopscotches confidently across themes of neurology, psychopharmacology, depression, love and guilt . . . The Effect moves you to thought, sometimes to strong feeling.
Sunday Times
Prebble has written a profound and stirring play. The material is complex but always accessible, the drama serious and informative yet deeply human, with the odd jolt of piercing humour. The Effect confirms her as one of the most intelligent voices in British theatre.
Evening Standard
Incisive dialogue . . . Prebble really researches and the range of her subjects suggests she will have a long theatrical life
Observer
The Effect is a headlong delve into the mysteries of the human brain. And Prebble pulls it off with assurance, tickling our cerebellums in the first half, before tugging on our heartstrings in the second . . . heartbreaking . . . [it has] a heart as well as a brain.
Time Out
Lucy Prebble's absorbing drama, a hit . . . Taut, intelligent
The Times
This is a knotty drama, dealing with scientific objectivity, guilt, the mysteries of the human heart and brain and what makes us who we are, wrapped up in a deceptively simple and constantly entertaining package.
Guardian
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