Details

I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen. Not on a Sunday. Not in England. I want things how they were...My perfect poet... 1944, one afternoon in London - on the floor, every last undiluted drop of you. After six lonely weeks with nobody but her crippled little boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so craves, there is only torment as Alfred's possessive half-sister arrives, and he announces his great revelation. Samuel Adamson's play takes Ibsen's Little Eyolf as the inspiration for a passionate and tragic tale of obsessive love, set in 1950s England. Running time 2 hours 25 mins inc interval

Cast/Performers

Josef Altin (Flea), Cassie Atkinson (Waitress), Omar Brown (George Constantine), Rene Gray (George Constantine, Phil Cheadle (Jonathan Mortimer), Alfie Field (Oliver), Wesley Nelson (Oliver), Naomi Frederick (Audrey Affleck), Sarah Niles (Sophia Constantine), Claire Skinner (Rita Affleck), Angus Wright (Alfred Affleck)

Creatives/Company

Author: Samuel Adamson (from Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf)
Producer: National Theatre
Director: Marianne Elliott
Design: Bunny Christie
Lighting: Neil Austin
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Sound: Christopher Shutt