Description
Written and directed by Steven Cosson with songs by Michael Friedman, (I am) Nobody's Lunch is a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture. This latest creation from the Obie-winning company The Civilians asks the thorny question-how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying? Is it possible to know what's really going on in the world when information is manipulated to serve particular interests? Does anyone really care? Turning extensive interviews into a mercurial cabaret-play, a versatile cast inhabits an eccentric cast of characters, all taken from real life.
(I am) Nobody's Lunch opened at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in August 2006, and transferred to the Soho Theatre, London. Published alongside a second short play, Gone Missing.
This latest creation from the Obie-winning company The Civilians asks the thorny question-how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying?
Reviews
a rich, resourceful and brain-tickling docu-musical an elegant balance of intellectual inquisitiveness, political comment and sly entertainment
* Time Out New York *
A funny, searching, at times plaintive look at the dangerous blurring of fact and myth in American culture and the unease that is its natural byproduct
* New York Times *Book Information
ISBN 9781840026931
Author Steven Cosson
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Oberon Modern Plays
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 130mm * 7mm