The Beautiful Future is Coming
$26.45
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
22 May 2025
Summary
‘Can you feel it? Something is hanging in the balance – ready to fall.’
- New York. Eunice sits in what will become Central Park, and wonders if her research into CO2 is telling her something is going horribly wrong.
- London. Claire falls in love as the heatwave breaks, and the streets begin to flood.
- Svalbard. While an 86-day storm rages outside, Ana hears a baby crying in the seed vault.
The world is ending, sure. But what happens in between?
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839044397 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 183904439X |
| Author: | Flora Wilson Brown |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 22 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘An important play that tackles the most important topic for our age… Wilson Brown understands, like all dramatists, that the personal is political… a wonderful contemporary section that fizzes with genuine chemistry… an entertaining and thoughtful work that more than earns its place on the main stage’
* WhatsOnStage *‘Compelling and conceptually dexterous’
* Guardian *‘Tackles climate grief head-on… elegant and exciting… shrewdly questions how we can actively cultivate hope, even as we feel overwhelmed by despair’
* The Stage *‘At once expansive and intimate… knowing and naturalistic… delicately balances hope and despair’
* Broadway World *‘A masterclass in controlling and apportioning material, but even more impressive is Wilson Brown’s ability to conjure credible, believable characters through whom to explore her ideas… a deeply powerful play’
* The Arts Desk *‘A fresh and often very funny look at the impacts of climate change’
* Reviews Hub *‘This could be one of the most important pieces of theatre you ever go and see… The Beautiful Future is Coming uses humour and hope to tackle the big subject of climate change… a thought provoking, emotive and moving story’
* Theatre & Tonic *Flora Wilson Brown
Flora Wilson Brown is a writer and dramaturg based in London. She is the co-founder, alongside Harry Tennison, of new writing theatre company DONOTALIGHT.
Her plays include:
- The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2024 & 2025)
- I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse, London, 2022)
- Viking (Edinburgh Fringe, 2019)
She adapted Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves for the stage (Jermyn Street Theatre, 2026).
As a dramaturg, she has worked on projects at the Edinburgh Fringe, the RSC, and the Orange Tree Theatre.
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