Rapture (NHB Modern Plays) by Lucy Kirkwood

Author:Lucy Kirkwood [Tan, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788506038
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

LUCY KIRKWOOD. Celeste was right. The footage that survives of State of Awake is impressive. But her comments seem to take the wind from his sails. Chris Challis says one minute they’d been entering film festivals, the next Noah’s talking about making a documentary instead. But six months go by. A year, eighteen months, nothing happens.

Noah’s still making the videos though, still gaining subscribers, he’s got nearly three hundred thousand at this point. But it’s when Celeste suddenly starts appearing in them, in January 2019, that the channel really takes off.

She’s a sunny but auxiliary presence at first, more Debbie McGee than Eleanor Roosevelt. But her confidence blooms quickly. The videos from this time are fast and funny, slightly chaotic but incredibly engaging, covering subjects like the new ten-year plan for the NHS, the first Extinction Rebellion protest, the birth of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and, a fan favourite, the announcement by the bakery chain Greggs of a meat-free sausage roll.

They disagree, frequently, passionately, but their brains seem synchronised – they don’t just finish each other’s sentences, but each other’s paragraphs. It’s like watching two people play absolutely beautiful tennis. It’s, well, sexy.

The videos have been almost clandestine for Noah, but Celeste’s proud: she starts posting links on her Facebook page. This causes more than one fierce public online fight with members of her extended family, who accuse Noah of being a fearmonger, a conspiracy theorist, and in one particularly lively exchange, ‘Greta Thunberg’s bumboy’. Following this, Celeste deletes all of her social media.

By Christmas 2019, the couple have got one-point-two million subscribers and are putting out two videos a week, but in reality, they’ve become pretty insular. They’d discussed spending the holiday with Celeste’s family, but cancel at the last moment, and spend Christmas Day at home, alone.

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