Albion (NHB Modern Plays)

In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope.Mike Bartlett's play

Albion was premiered in October 2017 at the Almeida Theatre, London, in a production directed by Rupert Goold.'Something remarkable. Our country needs it' –

Telegraph'[Has] a deeply reflective and humane quality to it: Bartlett draws his confused characters with a Chekhovian mix of wit and compassion… explores national identity through private mourning, and the meaning of the garden shifts, grows and deepens with the seasons' –

Financial Times'Scintillating… in the sometimes abrasive but always compelling Audrey, Bartlett has written a richly imagined female lead who can be mentioned in the same breath as the self-dramatizing Arkadina in

The Seagull' –

New York Times'A work of deeply absorbing emotional richness and symphonic density' –

Independent'Fascinating, complex… what makes the play so enormously intriguing is that, as in his

King Charles III, Bartlett shows us as a deeply divided people torn between the urge to preserve the past and to radically reform it' –

Guardian