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NIKOLAI CALCOEN |
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Plays by Nikolai Calcoen |
Optimism | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edge Hill University, The Rose theatre | 08 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Fuzzy Logic | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126178 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | devised piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | created by Matt Rogers, Nikolai Calcoen and Natalie Bellingham | |||||
Synopsis: | OPTIMISM is about the way in which people cope with the dissatisfactions in their lives. There is a bizarre phenomenon whereby people will throw themselves 110% into an action which is utterly unrelated to their problems, with an attitude of absolute certainty that it will cure their woes. We create a distraction, we offer up something new to focus on, all the while ignoring the real problem, often leaving us worse off in the end. In essence we are all well schooled in making our lives more complicated. In the current climate any actual changes tend to be cosmetic and more often than should be believed, those changes are drastic and irreversible. The sight of a person joyfully telling everyone how happy they are with their now swollen, bruised and in some places bleeding face in the aftermath of surgery is a tragic, disturbing and undeniably compelling thing to behold. The inherent insanity on show in such situations deserves discussion. This show attempts to do that. Just not in the way people might expect. | |||||
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