Modern Plays

By: Anthony Neilson

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Paperback | 9 June 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Realism is an exquisite, surreal trip inside the mind of one man that delighted audiences at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2006. It follows the life of one man during an ordinary day but veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously comic trip inside his wayward imagination. Dreams and day dreams are brought to life to hilarious effect exposing the fault lines between everyday life and the world of the imagination in which fantasies ignore conventions of taste and political correctness.It was described by the Guardian as a "bold and utterly distinctive all-singing, all-dancing show, like nothing else you'll ever see", and by the Herald as "an exquisite tragi-comedy for our times . . . It should strike a chord with anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of the modern world and their place in it. An absolute joy from start to finish."The text is published to coincide with its English premiere at the Soho Theatre in June 2011.

Industry Reviews

If Waiting for Godot is a play in which, as one critic had it, "nothing happens, twice", Realism is a play in which nothing happens, spectacularly. Anthony Neilson's comedy, previously seen at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, is a tale of inertia and of daydream - two potential ways to lose an audience for the price of one. But the result is wildly inventive, always entertaining, and ultimately rather moving too... The fireworks are fun. But Realism has an emotional undertow that makes it more than just a novelty item. -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times *
Anthony Neilson's ingenious play...invades the prosaic kitchen-sink existence of its troubled, bachelor-hero...with all kinds of surreal, day dreamy carry-on. -- Dominic Cavendish * Daily Telegraph *
Anthony Neilson's surprisingly moving musings on mundanity, the absurdities of modern life and "the accumulation of losses" that we must carry with us as we age is a sparky and often scurrilous 80 minutes that, in worming inside one's head, worms inside our own. -- Lyn Gardner * Guardian *
An exquisite tragi-comedy for our times . . . It should strike a chord with anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of the modern world and their place in it. An absolute joy from start to finish * Herald *

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