Performance

VenueMercury Theatre
Other spaces: Studio
TownColchester
CountyEssex
From27th April 2006
To6th May 2006
When19:30. Apr 29, May 4, 6, Mats 14:30
PricesFrom £9.00. To £18.50.
What is currently on at Mercury Theatre (V37)

The Bay at Nice

T2130436664
The White Witch has been called in. Two years after the death of Henri Matisse, a Leningrad art gallery has received a painting purporting to be one of his lost works. Their experts are stumped and with official embarrassment growing, the gallery has been forced to invite Valentina Nrovka, an ex-pupil of Matisse, to pass judgement on its authenticity. With Valentina comes her daughter Sophia, a dowdy schoolteacher miserably married to one of The Party's rising stars. In the tense hour that they share at the gallery, it becomes clear that the mother's judgement and intervention are critical to the fate of more than just a painting. This masterful short piece, from one of Britain's greatest living playwrights, opens a brief window into a lifetime's mess of opportunities missed, opportunities to be seized, love, cowardice and hopelessness.
Author David Hare


Archive :: production:T2130436664, play:S0960251782, venue:V37

Production details

Special Performances


  • 4 May 06 Sign Interpreted
  • 6 May 06 Audio Described

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Company

Company Mercury Theatre Company
Director Sue Lefton
Design Adrian Linford
Lighting Robin Carter
Performer Christine Absalom
Performer Miranda Bell
Performer Robert Calvert
Performer Kate Copeland
Performer Colm Gormley
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