Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter whose plays
include: The Human Body (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2024); Rapture
(promoted as That Is Not Who I Am, Royal Court Theatre, London,
2022); The Welkin (National Theatre, London 2020); Mosquitoes
(National Theatre, 2017); The Children (Royal Court Theatre, 2016);
Chimerica (Almeida Theatre & West End, 2013; winner of the 2014
Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2013 Evening Standard Best
Play Award, the 2014 Critics' Circle Best New Play Award, and the
Susan Smith Blackburn Award); NSFW (Royal Court, 2012); small hours
(co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Beauty and the
Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre, 2010); Bloody Wimmin,
as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre, 2010); it
felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now
(Clean Break & Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the 2012
John Whiting Award); Hedda (Gate Theatre, London, 2008); and
Tinderbox (Bush Theatre, 2008).
She won the inaugural Berwin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.
'Fascinating… Lucy Kirkwood is a dramatist of dauntless
ambition'
*Guardian*
'This is the kind of play that makes me want to punch the air in
celebration - it exudes as much energy as the protons pinging
around the Large Hadron Collider… Lucy Kirkwood's real triumph here
is to combine the thoughtful enquiry and large themes that marked
her previous hit, the award-winning Chimerica, with a portrait of a
dysfunctional family that exerts its own gravitational pull. The
result is emotionally involving as well as intellectually
satisfying… ranges from profoundly funny to deeply moving'
*WhatsOnStage*
'A fascinating and provocative work which uses science as a way of
questioning our humanity… Lucy Kirkwood is a playwright who tackles
giant themes with a swaggering showmanship'
*Telegraph*
'Wildly ambitious, often very funny… a drama of huge ideas – the
need for logic and irrationality, faith and science, to co-exist
together; the idea of love as a physical bond to the universe'
*Time Out*
'An idea-stuffed, intelligent play… Kirkwood is a writer of reach,
intelligence and ambition. There’s a hunger to her work, an urge to
fill her plays to brim. She knows how to spring-load a joke and can
write lines of total emotional devastation'
*The Stage*
'A mighty new play… hugely ambitious, intelligent and affecting,
and a refreshing epic powered by two women who contain
multitudes'
*Broadway World*
'Intelligent, impassioned… examines existence through both ends of
the telescope, swinging wildly between micro and macro, and
injecting huge questions about science and faith, the rational and
the emotional into a tough, tender family drama… exhilarating in
its ambition'
*The Times*
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