FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Thursday, 9 February 2012 - Sunday, 1 April 2012

Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR

How Much: £29.00 (Highest Price) , £14.00 (Lowest Price)

First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's Great Game series on Afghanistan.

First Blast is a collection of 5 short plays by some undeniably stellar playwrights, covering the period 1940-1992.

From Elsewhere: The Message by Zinnie Harris
Two physicists find themselves with information that could change the course of history, or at least the war. But now they've got to find someone who'll listen.

Calculated Risk by Ron Hutchinson
It's 1945 and Clement Atlee, the new PM is leading a country in a world that's seen the end of WWII, the dropping of the first A-bomb and the raising of the Iron Curtain. He's now has to decide Britain's place in all this.

Option by Amit Gupta
India, a country whose independence is supposedly founded on Gandhi's principles of peace and pacifism has witnessed the People?s Republic of China carry our its first nuclear weapons-test. Three leading nuclear scientists find their lives at a turning point as their politicians consider signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Seven Joys by Lee Blessing
Membership of a gentlemen's club in '40s Washington is getting a little out of hand. How can the members ensure their group remains elite?

Little Russians by John Donnelly
Missiles are missing and to find them, Russia and America have formed an uneasy alliance. Meanwhile, an opportunist Ukrainian family make the most of the black market.

Click here to see the plays included in Second Blast, part of The Bomb - A Partial History. Oh, and Naima's review.