Albion (NHB Modern Plays)

In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Mike Bartlett‘s play Albion was premiered in October 2017 at the Almeida Theatre, London, in a production directed by Rupert Goold. ‘Something remarkable. Our country needs it‘ - Telegraph ‘[Has] a deeply reflective and humane quality to it: Bartlett draws his confused characters with a Chekhovian mix of wit and compassion... explores national identity through private mourning, and the meaning of the garden shifts, grows and deepens with the seasons‘ - Financial Times ‘Scintillating... in the sometimes abrasive but always compelling Audrey, Bartlett has written a richly imagined female lead who can be mentioned in the same breath as the self-dramatizing Arkadina in The Seagull‘ - New York Times ‘A work of deeply absorbing emotional richness and symphonic density‘ - Independent ‘Fascinating, complex... what makes the play so enormously intriguing is that, as in his King Charles III, Bartlett shows us as a deeply divided people torn between the urge to preserve the past and to radically reform it‘ - Guardian