Love Lessons - Finborough Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
LOVE Lessons, a new play based on the diaries and memoirs of Joan Wyndham, receives its UK premiere at Finborough Theatre – for three performances only – Monday, April 28, Sunday, May 4 and Monday, May 5, 2008.
In 1940 at the height of the Blitz, Joan Wyndham was eighteen years old – a young, upper class art student, living in the heart of Little Chelsea’s Bohemian centre.
With brutal honesty, she talks of love and war – coupling her vivacious stories of life, love and growing up in war-ravaged Bohemian London with a unique and fascinating glimpse into the past of the Finborough Theatre’s immediate area.
Love Lessons, which toured America after premiering in Washington DC in 2006, is adapted and performed by Maggie Contreras, an actress based in Los Angeles. Nicolette Lee Roberts directs, design is by Carl Gudenius and lighting by David M. Robinson.
Wyndham, whose four published books of diaries and memoirs have been heard on BBC Radio and much anthologised, led a rich and varied life – opening Oxford’s first espresso bar, running a hippy restaurant in the Portobello Road, as well as cooking at major pop festivals and for the actors at the Royal Court Theatre.
She also worked in Fleet Street on women’s magazines and as a food and wine critic in London and New York. She died in April 2007, leaving behind a husband, two daughters, two cats, and a home off the Fulham Road, just two minutes’ walk from Finborough Theatre.
Tickets: £13, £9 concessions.
Times: 7:30pm.
Performance Length: Approximately 1 hour.
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