Burlesque strip shows, bad dreams, social breakdown, population explosion, worldwide paranoia. Mike Bartlett’s rollercoaster of a new play, Earthquakes In London, depicts a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastophe.

An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Earthquakes In London from 1968 to 2525 and back again.

Bartlett is the award-winning playwright of Cock, Contractions and My Child at the Royal Court, and Artefacts at the Bush theatre.

Director of Earthquakes In London, Rupert Goold, is the Artistic Director of Headlong theatre company. His recent productions include Enron, for which he won the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, Time And The Conways at the National Theatre, and Macbeth in the West End, which earned him his first Olivier.