The effect
By: Lucy Prebble
Series: Modern plays; Methuen modern plays
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Love; Drama; Drugs; Testing
Description: Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction. It premiered at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in November 2012.