The faith machine
By: Alexi Kaye Campbell
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: New York, September 2001. Sophie, an idealistic Englishwoman, presents her American lover, Tom, with a moral choice: she will dump him unless he abandons a massive advertising account he has secured with a pharmaceutical company that has used Ugandan children as a laboratory experiment. The play then jumps back to 1998: Tom and Sophie are visiting her father, Edward, on the Greek island of Patmos where another moral drama is being played out. Edward, an Anglican bishop, is under pressure from a Kenyan cleric not to quit the church over its inflexible attitude to homosexuality. The plot continues to jump forward and back in time as we witness Edward's declining health and the path of Sophie and Tom's turbulent relationship.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2011.