Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Flavour of freedom

Richard Bean is a creative nomad, a pix-and-mix sort of playwright who lights on subjects seemingly at random.

Richard Bean is a creative nomad, a pix-and-mix sort of playwright who lights on subjects seemingly at random. He’s written about Brussels, racism, agriculture, social mobility and trawlermen. Now he’s taken on climate change and he’s hit the mark with delicious accuracy. This is his best play so far.

The Heretic is set in a university earth-sciences faculty where Diane, a paleogeophysicist, has found incontestable proof that sea levels aren’t rising.

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