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BWW Review: THE CHILDREN, Royal Court, 24 November 2016 by Alexandra Coghlan

Three sixty-something retired scientists talk to one another in a remote seaside cottage for two hours. It doesn't sound like theatrical gold, but in Lucy Kirkwood's deft hands, an unassuming premise becomes transformed by a quiet dramatic alchemy. The Children isn't a play that shouts, but it's one whose whispers carry far and linger even longer - a warm, funny and devastating portrait of the end of the world as we …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37AM on November 25, 2016

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