nothing

Nothing is much more than a series of monologues. It is about – among other things – cupcakes, action films, crap television, shitting, sex, buses and stalking. It is about alienation and being young.

Barrel Organ's multi-award winning debut, Nothing, debuted at Warwick Arts Centre before success at the National Student Drama Festival. It then opened to great acclaim at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Fringe before a short run at Camden People's Theatre. The piece has been performed across the UK at venues including Paines Plough Roundabout and The Lyric, Hammersmith.

Initially written as eight monologues by Lulu Raczka (winner of the Sunday Times Young Playwriting Award), Nothing asks questions about the nature of theatre itself as performers improvise a new cut with every performance, each starting the show without knowing which particular monologue they will be performing on that occasion. Nothing is thus a game for both performer and audience, but it is also a serious interrogation of the structures within which we live.