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Book SynopsisNativities is a darkly comic new play set in the wasteland of petty office politics, designated smoking areas and personal alienation.Excited about her new job as administrative assistant at a call centre, Stella is eager to fit in with her workmates and they seem to like her too, especially when they find out how much they all have in common. It's really like a family at Scion Communications so when they discover that Stella is pregnant they're all delighted for her. However, as her pregnancy progresses, their certainties about love, relationships and parenthood are questioned and their lives both at work and at home begin to unravel.Set somewhere between an Orwellian dystopian vision and an all too familiar contemporary reality, Cooper's writing turns a lens on everyday office life and how personalities are warped in its liminal space. Within the repeating motifs of the anonymity of the corporate existence, recurrent unvaried routines and ominously authoritative performance
Trade ReviewCooper has a fine eye for the banalities and brutalities of office life … a debut full of sparky intelligence that promises good things to come -- Alfred Hickling * Guardian *
