August 7-17th 2024

The Children

In a quiet coastal cottage, two retired nuclear physicists Hazel and Robin are living a
simple life: yoga, salads, farming. Their old workplace, a nuclear power station, has
just been devastated by a tsunami. Radiation fills the air. One evening an old
colleague, Rose, drops by unannounced with a proposition which will shake their
already fragile world.

“ … a richly suggestive and beautifully written piece of work … Kirkwood is the most
rewarding dramatist of her generation.” The Independent (London)

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