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Atlantis (Playscript)

Emily White

Winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, Emily White’s Atlantis is an extraordinarily ambitious and humane climate drama for our times.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571404070
Date Published
18.06.2026

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Summary

‘Atlantis is at once intimate and epic, fearless and tender, it is family drama and devastating global commentary . . . Emily White is an outstanding talent.’
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, on behalf of the judges of the George Devine Award 2021

Darkness. Look up. Look up there into the heavens, into the dark limitless expanse of space, and think back to four and a half billion years ago, give or take like.

In a small Welsh coastal village, in a bungalow, live a family who will soon be forcibly evacuated from their home. Faced with rising sea levels and government apathy, Gwen and her granddaughter Rhiannon are galvanised into climate activism. As the years pass and the world becomes increasingly hostile, their passionate militantism threatens to rip the family apart.

Atlantis opened at Theatr Clwyd, Mold, in June 2026 and transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2026.

Critic Reviews

Impressively well-constructed . . . White uses believable fraught family dynamics across four generations to embody different responses to climate change and to ask important, thorny questions about the limits of personal responsibility in the face of a global crisis.

The Times

Critic Reviews

Angry, tender, and heartbreakingly relevant . . . Emily White’s writing is exceptional, weaving together the complexities of family relationships against a backdrop of social, political and environmental upheaval.

Reviews Hub

Critic Reviews

Ambitious and deeply moving . . . Rather than offering solutions, it compels its audience to sit with uncertainty, grief and hope in equal measure.

WhatsOnStage

Critic Reviews

Extraordinary . . . Epic in scope but movingly intimate in the events it portrays . . . The ambition of White’s writing is breathtaking.

Cheshire Live