Artefacts
By: Mike Bartlett.
Contributors: Bush Theatre (London, England); Nabokov (Theater company)
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781408106778
Subjects: Iraqis -- England -- Drama.; Fathers and daughters -- Drama.; Teenage girls -- England -- Drama.; Domestic drama, English.
Genres: Drama.
Description: Kelly (Lizzy Watts), an excitable British teenager, prepares to meet her Iraqi father, Ibrahim (Peter Polycarpou), for the first time. Ibrahim, who runs the National Museum in Baghdad, left her mother while she was pregnant, and when he lumbers in, it's clear that the guilt hasn't left him. The short scene, which features few words but a play's worth of personal and political subtext, concludes with his handing her an ancient Iraqi vase, which, as a kind of punishment, she breaks. He stares at the pieces, frozen in shock. And from there the nightmare begins.
Notes: "The Bush Theatre;  Nabokov"--Cover.