Carol Churchill’s ‘Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen’ is a dystopian play about a future for London where environmental apocalypse has led to space being limited and the city being coated in a thick smog, nature is absent and oxygen is a luxury that people must buy and spray out of a can. I picked this up as I have time to kill and filtered my TBR by shortest just to knock something off, and having written an essay on Churchill’s plays last year the short descriptions and blurbs of it I have read pretty much encapsulated the whole plot. The lack of empathy of the characters is interesting, establishing an apocalyptic reality where nobody cares for anyone else and charity is frowned upon, for a shortage of oxygen means childbirth is heavily sanctioned and others dying is only to the benefit of the self. Vivien’s scripted lines were repetitive, almost attempting at writing a stammer though I don’t know if this was Churchill presenting a disability or some sort of effect from an absence of oxygen and attempt to preserve words. It was very similar in mood to ‘Far Away’ and I liked it for that, though reckon critical reception of the play would be more engaging than the play itself, as I found with other of Churchill’s drama that I have read. All in all it was an easy knock off my TBR.