Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

Synopsis

The time is 2010.
Mick was young in the seventies.

In a suffocating future London, Vivian clings to her oxygen spray and fragmented speech as she tries to make sense of a world running out of air. Her older companion Mick awaits a visit from his famous son Claude, pinning his hopes on a windfall that might buy them a coveted cottage in one of the last remaining parks. As they wait, Churchill plunges us into a claustrophobic dystopia where words themselves seem to gasp for breath.

The play crackles with a desperate energy, each repeated word and truncated sentence mirroring the characters’ struggle to breathe, to connect, to find meaning in a world stripped of nature and hope. When Claude finally arrives, his presence shatters the fragile illusions Mick and Vivian have constructed. Through their tense, disjointed interactions, Churchill explores themes of generational divide, environmental collapse, and the human capacity for self-deception in the face of catastrophe.