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A Very Expensive Poison
About this book
A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair. Lucy Prebble ( Enron, The Effect ) brings a shocking story to the stage, adapted from the book by Luke Harding, with an astute mix of real events, vaudeville and thriller. This edition was published to coincide with the World Premiere at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in 2019.
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Act
Two
Scene
One
An
ornate
font
announces:
Professor
Dombey’s
Report
Into
the
Origins
of
Polonium
Commissioned
by
Marina
Litvinenko
Originally,
the
following
poem
was
also
performed
as
a
shadow
play.
Dombey
All
Russian
children
know
from
when
they’re
young
By
heart,
a
tale
of
love
and
fire
that’s
sung
Of
Ruslan
and
Lludmilla,
hearts
entwined,
She’s
kidnapped,
while
her
love
is
left
behind.
The
Prince’s
epic
journey
and
their
fate
That
make
up
Pushkin’s
tale
I
won’t
relate
But
know
that
from
the
lovers’
burning
flames
Two
nuclear
reactors
took
their
names
So
Ruslan
and
Lludmilla
came
to
be
Built
by
a
secret
town,
in
secrecy
Behind
the
Ural
mountains
by
a
lake
A
dangerous
atomic
love
they
make
A
substance
first
defined
in
Paris,
France
When
Marie
Curie
made
a
strange
advance
Uranium
experiments
had
shown
Existence
of
an
element
unknown
She
named
it
for
the
country
of
her
birth
One
of
the
rarest
elements
on
earth
She
named
it
after
Poland,
then
unfree,
Partitioned,
sat
at
Mother
Russia’s
knee.
And
after
battles,
strikes,
The
First
World
War
An
independent
Poland
was
restored
And
Curie
saw
her
newly
reborn
nation
Before
she
died,
from
years
of
radiation.
Curie
’s
eaten
away
by
radiation.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- A Very Expensive Poison
- Drama Online
- Methuen Drama Modern Plays
- Methuen Drama Contemporary Dramatists