The Children
By: Lucy Kirkwood
Director: Don Harper
The Children is compelling. Recipient of two 2017 Tony Award nominations (best play and leading actress), critics noted that it provides both “tragic love stories and an archetypal hero’s journey.” After the meltdown of a nuclear power plant on the English coast, aging husband and wife nuclear engineers struggle with the question
of personal accountability in conflict with immediate family obligations. Do they, having already lived a “full life,” enter the toxic plant to assist with the shutdown? Their struggles are compounded by old tensions re-ignited by a visiting colleague from the past.
WARNING: This play contains Adult Content and Language
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