The Effect (Modern Classics)

Thought provoking and unusual in its successful effort to take an ethical and scientific dilemma to an emotional and tragic / comic situations. Highly recommended as well as the actual play on national theatre in London.

I really liked the play,the characters are lovable and the plot is very interesting and presented even more interestingly. The ending is bitter sweet and the play explores and ideas and concepts through the minds of 2 young people on a clinical trial. The dialogues are very well written and is overall entertaining.

This play is brilliant.

I saw the play and am waiting for the text. It is a very important theatre text of our era, i am convinced. It has some profound questions in it, which to some degree have always existed, but are asked in a new light. The text is very "close", close to the writer and close to you if you can appreciate it. Again, a big mirror is held before us and the big question echoes "Who are we?"

I saw the play recently and hated it, but now reading the play I realise it was the production that bothered me not the play.

This is quite simply one of the best plays I’ve ever read. I’m still thinking about it now.

I saw the play and am waiting for the text. It is a very important theatre text of our era, i am convinced. It has some profound questions in it, which to some degree have always existed, but are asked in a new light. The text is very "close", close to the writer and close to you if you can appreciate it. Again, a big mirror is held before us and the big questions echoes "Who are we?"

Very nice modern play. You don't want to stop reading it until you know the end .

Having not seen the play, I was worried that I might end up interpreting this play incorrectly, or not truly understanding the nature of it, but upon reading it, I think the message itself was very clear.The Effect by Lucy Prebble is a great read, and has some great parts for performing (or so I'd imagine, doing part of it for a monologue myself). I really enjoyed this, and I felt it very easy to understand, even with it being based a lot around science. I managed to get somewhat emotionally invested in these characters, and really cared about what happened to them, and the fact that Prebble has achieved this, is a job well done indeed. Its a shame I did not get to see it performed by Billie Piper and the rest of the cast earlier this year, as I believe it would have been brilliant up on its feet. It is definitely worth a read.

Loved the premise and execution of this dystopian [but not all unlikely] take on pharmaceutical trials.