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Preview by Paul Nelson
THE
production company Kitchen Skink is to present a double bill by Arnold
Wesker.
In the first play, The Four Seasons, Adam and Beatrice have been bruised
by their separate marriages and love affairs and have agreed to spend time
together in a remote cottage - a kind of sabbatical from life.
In winter she is catatonic, he must attend to things. By the spring, his caring
has thawed her frozen feelings. When summer comes, they are in love and Beatrice
begs Adam to come away and begin a new life together in the real world. He
hesitates, afraid. They linger until autumn. Mistakes, which destroyed previous
relationships, are repeated. Love dies.
The second play is a London premiere, Break, My Heart. This play is
inspired by a true story; it confronts the breakdown of a marriage. Maeve's
love of words and poetry intimidates her husband, whose resentment explodes
into violence. Shame follows. Maeve comforts him. Literacy, violence, shame,
comfort - will the cycle ever be broken?
This complex and sophisticated work is an intense and harrowing drama and
was described by The Western Mail, 'As a metaphor about humanity, it has
almost mythic quality; as a domestic drama it is explosively, frighteningly
real'.
The plays will be presented at The Blue Elephant Theatre, a venue
new to me, and against the grain of most fringe theatres that don't perform
on Mondays; performances will be from Monday to Saturday.
The Four Seasons, and Break, My Heart by Arnold Wesker, Presented by Kitchen
Skink at The Blue Elephant Theatre, 59a Bethwin Road, Camberwell, London SE5
from March 10 to March 29. Tickets 020 7701 0100.
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for The Blue Elephant website...
