#Play: Chimerica

• Author: Lucy Kirkwood
• Title: Chimerica
• Published: 2013
• List of Challenges
• Monthly plan
• List of Plays and theatre links
• Trivia:
• Winner, 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
  Winner, 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play
  Winner, 2013 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play
  Winner, 2014 Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award

 

 

Finished: 11.02.2019
Genre: play
Rating: A

Conclusion:

1. If you are in a winter ‘reading slump’ read a play!
2. This award winning work by Lucy Kirkwood is a good place to start.
3. There was a tank man (see cover), the photo proves it and
4. Kirkwood has taken a creative leap to tell us who he is…
5. why he is standing there….and what is in those shopping bags?
6. A writer’s duty is to the story rather than the facts as they happened.
7. Kirkwood’s Chimerica  is based  loosely on the
8. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
9. She fictionalized it and retained control of the impressive narrative.
10. It took Kirkwood 6 years to write this play
11. …and you can read it is 2,5 hrs.