THE BOMB opens at the Tricycle

THE BOMB has opened at the Tricycle Theatre, in a two-part, five hour cycle of plays examining the history of the nuclear bomb.

It serves as Nicolas Kent’s outgoing production at the venue, where he has been Artistic Director for the past 28 years.  The cycle includes work by Amit Gupta (“Option”, seen in the FIRST BLAST segment), Ryan Craig ("Talk Talk Fight Fight", seen in the SECOND BLAST segment), with designs by Polly Sullivan, videos by Douglas O’Connell, and features Tariq Jordan among its ensemble.

Nicolas Kent bids farewell to the Tricycle with a characteristically grand project... an astonishing achievement.

The vivid clarity of Kent’s production and Sullivan’s design... the heroic ambition of the enterprise.  The Tricycle has once again started a debate that our politicians would prefer to suppress.
Guardian ****

Times ****

A typically bold and political project... a probing account of the history of nuclear weapons – and their future.

Ryan Craig's Talk Talk Fight Fight is crisply intelligent.

Polly Sullivan’s inventive design.

This is a timely attempt to catalyse debate about a subject too often neglected.
Evening Standard ****

It’s a chilling and deeply disturbing progression.

There’s a very good integretion of historic footage and newsreel – design and video bouquets to Polly Sullivan and Douglas O’Connell
Whatsonstage ****

What an event.  Only the Tricycle – the last bastion of powerful political theatre in the UK – could present a five-hour marathon on the development and deployment of the nuclear bomb.  And only the Tricycle could make those five hours fly.

The Bomb is an exercise in creating simple, entertaining and crucial polemical theatre.
The Stage

It plays at the Tricycle until 1st April and tickets can be bought via the links for FIRST BLAST and SECOND BLAST.