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.T01269211802Producer Menier Chocolate Factory. Director Richard Eyre. Design Fotini Dimou. Costume Fotini Dimou. Lighting Paul Pyant. Sound Gregory Clarke. Performer Martin Hutson. Performer Ophelia Lovibond. Performer David Rintoul. Performer Penelope Wilton. | |
| 14 Mar 19 to 4 May 19 | Menier Chocolate Factory, Outer London :: V341546307 listing details L01278783719 |
T2130436664Company 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. | |
| 27 Apr 06 to 6 May 06 | Mercury Theatre, Colchester :: V37 listing details L1343220851 |
T77924723Producer RADA. Director Rachel Grunwald. | |
| 5 Jul 05 to 9 Jul 05 | The Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, Inner London :: V1212 listing details L01814694147 |
