The accident did not take place
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The accident did not take place
By (Author) Sam Ward
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Modern Plays
20th March 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Theatre studies
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
822.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
72
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 5mm
Description
Somewhere on the other side of the world, a plane is falling from the sky. You can see it on your laptop. You can watch it happening on YouTube. You can hit rewind and watch it burning on repeat. Combining play text with experimental book design, the accident did not take place is a hyper-real exploration of the way we consume information, and the way information consumes us; a frenetic, head-on collision with a world thoroughly mediated by screens, a world possessed with post-truth hysteria, a world yearning for contact with those who seem so far away.
Author Bio
Sam Ward is the founder of theatre company YESYESNONO, and former Resident Assistant Director at HOME Manchester.
