• Runtime: 120 minutes

• Theatre

by Lucy Kirkwood

“We were lucky. When the wave came, the house was flooded, but not destroyed… just stinking and full of silt... the stench… We fed the cows for the last time... We drove away. We knew they’d all be dead in days.”

In the wake of a disastrous nuclear meltdown, retired couple Robin and Hazel now live in a crumbling cottage, just outside of the exclusion zone around the coastal power station where they once worked as nuclear physicists. Rose, a former colleague, arrives unexpectedly for a long overdue visit and creates comic mayhem in the process.

Chatting and reminiscing casually at first, the cracks in their friendship soon emerge as Robin, Hazel and Rose comically reveal the roles they’ve played in each other’s lives. Then they must face a terrifying decision together.

This gripping drama, written by Lucy Kirkwood as a single continuous scene, premiered in 2016. Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, it tells a very human story of life, ageing and relationships against the background of a world in ecological peril.

This amateur production appears by arrangement with Nick Hern books.