Quotes from Graham Saunders

the way the characters are depicted as almost hermetically sealed off from the world around them is an image of isolation and dissociation that epitomizes the self-absorbed "Me" generation of the 1990s' (Innes 2002: 431); even

play's topical exploration of new technology. In its most celebrated scene, theatre-goers in 1997 perhaps for the first time witnessed an onstage representation of two people communicating through the internet. Although

its contemporary metropolitan setting, its self-conscious 'coolness', its underlying preoccupation with the surface appearance of things and an accompanying cynicism and bleakness as audiences witnessed the machinations of its characters. Yet

after feminist politics and the age of the New Man … no one knows what's going on anymore' (Sierz 2001: 191). This

Key amongst these is the Newton's Cradle, which we