'I just don't know if I'm ever happy. Like, really truly happy. Even if you sent me up to space, by day four I'd be worrying if I had enough stuff on my Kindle...'

What makes us truly happy? Health? Family? Professional success? Blasting it in the gym? Romance? Pills?

Or are we ignoring the bigger stuff? Real life-changing stuff that can devastate the world if we just keep ignoring it.

Glenn Waldron's darkly surprising comedy The Here and This and Now takes a look at the pharmaceuticals business, the salaryman and woman, and the quest for happiness. It premiered at Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2017.

About the Author

Glenn Waldron is a playwright and journalist. His plays include: Natives (a Boundless Theatre production at Southwark Playhouse, 2017, following a production at Dusseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 2016); The Here and This and Now (Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2017); and Forever House (at the Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2013).

He is the former Editor of i-D magazine and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent and Vogue.

Reviews

'If you like Black Mirror, you're going to love this... structurally playful and infused with a gleefully black humour, it absorbingly exposes the irresponsibility of big pharma, the depravity of salesmanship, and a whole lot more besides. It's hilarious and horrific, all at once'

* Whatsonstage.com *

'A brilliantly taut black comedy... better and bigger than Black Mirror, and with much more to say'

* The Stage *

'Has an important point to make... seduces us with laughter'

* Guardian *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848426474
Author Glenn Waldron
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books