3 Billion Seconds (NHB Modern Plays)

3 Billion Seconds, a play by Maud Dromgoole, is a hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.

It was first performed as part of the 2019 VAULT Festival, London.

Also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 4.

Auteur

Maud Dromgoole is a writer from London. Her plays include Mary's Babies (VAULT Festival/King's Head/Fertility Fest @ Bush Theatre/Jermyn Street Theatre); Rosa, Ursula and Richard (Finalist Mercury Weinberger Prize; reading at Old Red Lion); Blue Moon (Bread and Roses/The Courtyard/Arcola - as short play). Her short plays include Sleeping Beauty (The Bunker); Milk (The Bunker/Hackney Attic); Cake (The Cockpit/Tristan Bates Theatre); The Boy James (Love Bites); A Violet in the Youth of Primy Nature (Theatre Utopia) and Selkie (Southwark Playhouse/Old Red Lion). Her sitcom Acting Up was shortlisted for BBC Writersroom Comedy Script Room.