Nativities
By: by Zoe Cooper
Series: Modern plays; Methuen modern plays
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Call centers; Drama; Interpersonal relations; Pregnant women
Description: Set somewhere between an Orwellian dystopian vision and an all too familiar contemporary reality, 'Nativities' turns a lens on everyday office life and how personalities are warped in its liminal space. Within the repeating motifs of the anonymity of the corporate existence, recurrent unvaried routines and ominously authoritative performance targets, the core of the play focuses on the sheer isolation and loneliness of the characters. The dialogue is overlapping, misunderstood and disconnected, and the characters are unable to communicate in spite of spending the majority of their waking lives together. This kaleidoscopic dialogue and the slippery, shifting ground between the characters effectively creates a new language for the stage which is startlingly original.