The Bomb: A Partial History - Brossura

'An entertaining, provoking dossier, with admirable nuance and real purpose.' 4 stars --Time Out

'bold and political ... a probing account of the history of nuclear weapons - and their future.. a timely attempt to catalyse debate about a subject too often neglected.' 4 stars --Evening Standard

'The Bomb - A Partial History in Two Parts can only be reviewed as an event. And what an event. Only the Tricycle - the last bastion of powerful political theatre in the UK - could present a five-hour marathon on the development and deployment of the nuclear bomb. And only the Tricycle could make those five hours fly.... an exercise in creating simple, entertaining and crucial polemical theatre.' --The Stage

'a blazing genealogy of the bomb from Proliferation to the Present.... if you have the slightest interest in theatre as something that exceeds entertainment, you owe it to yourself to be present.' 4 stars --The Arts Desk

'The Bomb - A Partial History in Two Parts can only be reviewed as an event. And what an event. Only the Tricycle - the last bastion of powerful political theatre in the UK - could present a five-hour marathon on the development and deployment of the nuclear bomb. And only the Tricycle could make those five hours fly.... an exercise in creating simple, entertaining and crucial polemical theatre.' --The Stage

The line up of authors for this project are second to none and include prize winning British and American playwrights. Many of the playwrights featured also wrote plays for the Great Game Afghanistan cycle of plays and have been called back to be inspired by the Nuclear Bomb.