TY - BOOK AU - Mullarkey,Rory TI - Pity T2 - Modern plays SN - 9781350093898 (pbk.) : U1 - 822.9'2 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama KW - Literature KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - A normal day. A person stands in the market square watching the world go by. What happens next verges on the ridiculous. There's ice cream. Sunshine. Shops. Some dogs. A wedding. Bombs. Candles. Blood. Lightning. Sandwiches. Snipers. Looting. Gunshots. Babies. Actors. Azaleas. Famine. Fountains. Statues. Atrocities. And tanks. (Probably). Rory Mullarkey's play asks whether things really are getting worse. And if we care ER -