Lucy Kirkwood's Tony-nominated play arrives at the Fountain Theatre for its Los Angeles premiere.
Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Children” follows the wisdom of the environmental slogan “think globally, act locally.”
Long married, Hazel and Robin are retired nuclear scientists who have taken up residence in a cottage with temperamental plumbing after their nearby house was inundated by the tsunami. Rose , a nuclear physicist once romantically linked with Robin, shows up at the couple’s door mysteriously after a 38-year absence.The cottage is a little further outside what is called the “exclusion zone” than Hazel and Robin’s farmhouse, which they decided to abandon, farm animals and all.
There’s much fussing about the domestic situation. The electricity is out, so Hazel is forced to serve tea from a thermos. She fixes a salad and fills Rose in on how they’ve been surviving what she describes as a “one-in-ten-million-years fault sequence” involving the nuclear power station. The characters’ relationship to the future is shaped by these private circumstances. Rose smokes, Hazel is obsessed with yoga and Robin has a history of drinking too much at parties and pursuing beautiful women.
When Rose uses the faulty bathroom, Hazel, who understands the inner workings of nuclear fission, anxiously asks if she did “number one or a number two?” After a couple of bottles of Robin’s homemade wine, the characters degenerate into an angry high school love triangle. The childishness, which isn’t overplayed, hints at something stunted in these otherwise quite capable adults.the play provided a feast for an exquisite cast of British stage veterans.
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