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Rory Mullarkey’s new play at the Royal Court Theatre

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Children under 14 will not be admitted.

Performance Dates

12 July - 11 August 2018

Royal Court Theatre

Run time: 1hr 40min (no interval)

Includes interval

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“Two bombs in one day is a foul coincidence”
“Don’t forget the lightning strike”

A normal day.

A person stands in the market square watching the world go by.

What happens next verges on the ridiculous.

There’s ice cream. Sunshine. Shops. Some dogs. A wedding. Bombs. Candles. Blood. Lightning. Sandwiches. Snipers. Looting. Gunshots. Babies. Actors. Azaleas. Famine. Fountains. Statues. Atrocities.

And tanks. (Probably).

Rory Mullarkey’s new play asks whether things really are getting worse. And if we care.

“[Someone screaming]: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH”

Rory returns to the Royal Court following his debut here with The Wolf from the Door in 2014. In the same year, he was awarded the George Devine Award, the Pinter Commission, and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama.

Sam Pritchard’s previous work for the Royal Court includes Grimly Handsome and B.

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Captioned performance: 31 July 2018. Audio described performance: 4 August 2018 at 2.30pm

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Royal Court production of Rory Mullarkey's Pity announces its cast

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Royal Court production of Rory Mullarkey's Pity announces its cast

Casting has been announced for the upcoming production of the new Rory Mullarkey play, Pity, which will premiere at the Royal Court Theatre this July. This unique theatrical experience has a lot of theatrical tricks up its sleeve.

11 Jun, 2018 | By Nicholas Ephram Ryan Daniels

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