Invincible - (Oberon Modern Plays) by Torben Betts (Paperback)

About the Book

Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize their lives, but classes and outlooks collide when they meet their new neighbors.

Book Synopsis

The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and to raise their two young children in a friendly community, among what Emily terms 'real people', away from the cold anonymityof the city.

So these left-leaning, well-educated people have invited over two of their new neighbours in an attempt to break the ice. Tonight Alan and Dawn are to be offered olives, anchovies and are to be introduced to Karl Marx and abstract art.

As classes and outlooks collide, the scene is set for a meeting which will have consequences as hilarious as they are tragic.

Review Quotes

"Betts has caught the mood of the times... The only mystery about Torben Betts is why his perceptive social commentaries are not better known." --Guardian

"Torben Betts's astute new play is both highly entertaining and tense...a vibrant combination of a play of ideas and a comedy of bad manners...startlingly raw." --The Times

"An uncommonly talented playwright... Brilliant and testing." --Time Out

About the Author

Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, which won the award for Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland; A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards; Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man; The Biggleswades; Five Visions of the Faithful; The Lunatic Queen; The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things.