Nothing

An innovative play which won four awards at 2014's National Student Drama Festival. A striking debut.

Auteur
Lulu Raczka is an award-winning writer. She is Company Director of Barrel Organ, with whom she worked on her first play Nothing. Nothing was awarded The Sunday Times Playwriting Award as well as the National Student Drama Festival Award for Creative Risk. Some People Talk About Violence, also with Barrel Organ, played at the Edinburgh Fringe, New Diorama and Camden's People Theatre in 2015. In 2016 Lulu's Clytemnestra formed part of the Gate Theatre's Iphigenia Quartet and her play Grey Man was produced as part of the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival and at Theatre503, London. Lulu's play A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) was first produced by West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017 and at the New Diorama Theatre.

Texte du rabat

Initially written as eight monologues by Lulu Raczka, Nothing asks questions about the nature of theatre as performers improvise a new cut with every performance, each starting the show without knowing which monologue they will be performing that day. Nothing is thus a game for both performer and audience, and a serious interrogation of the structures within which we live.