Breathing Corpses
Told in reverse, the play begins when hotel maid Amy discovers Jim’s corpse, then moves backward through events involving a young woman’s body found in Jim’s warehouse and the despair that led to his suicide.
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Told in reverse, the play begins when hotel maid Amy discovers Jim’s corpse, then moves backward through events involving a young woman’s body found in Jim’s warehouse and the despair that led to his suicide.
A woman is dying of bone cancer, and her family struggles to come to terms with her approaching death.
Judy and Johnny lead a 50s lifestyle, clothes, décor, appliances. She stays at home while Johnny works as an estate agent. He hopes for a promotion. He realises they have financial problems; the house might be repossessed. Three years earlier Judy had taken voluntary redundancy, but the money has run out. He is underperforming at work and doesn’t earn as much commission. He says he isn’t happy. They need to change. He gets a promotion, but it will involve a long commute. They agree to compromise.
Ten members of the fictional Riot Club, an exclusive Oxford dining club, hold a drunken dinner in a country pub. As the evening's bullying escalates, they wreck the room and seriously injure the landlord. They agree to blame one member, Alistair, and use their future influence to protect him; weeks later, an MP helps weaken the charge against him.
When Jane Austen’s unfinished story reaches its stopping point, the dramatist appears onstage and debates with the rebellious characters about how their story should continue, turning the Regency drama into a philosophical comedy.
A stage adaptation conceived as a celebration of sexuality and a formative journey to love and sexual discovery between women, in a period when that relationship is frowned upon.
Told in reverse, the play begins when hotel maid Amy discovers Jim’s corpse, then moves backward through events involving a young woman’s body found in Jim’s warehouse and the despair that led to his suicide.
A woman is dying of bone cancer, and her family struggles to come to terms with her approaching death.
Judy and Johnny lead a 50s lifestyle, clothes, décor, appliances. She stays at home while Johnny works as an estate agent. He hopes for a promotion. He realises they have financial problems; the house might be repossessed. Three years earlier Judy had taken voluntary redundancy, but the money has run out. He is underperforming at work and doesn’t earn as much commission. He says he isn’t happy. They need to change. He gets a promotion, but it will involve a long commute. They agree to compromise.
Ten members of the fictional Riot Club, an exclusive Oxford dining club, hold a drunken dinner in a country pub. As the evening's bullying escalates, they wreck the room and seriously injure the landlord. They agree to blame one member, Alistair, and use their future influence to protect him; weeks later, an MP helps weaken the charge against him.
When Jane Austen’s unfinished story reaches its stopping point, the dramatist appears onstage and debates with the rebellious characters about how their story should continue, turning the Regency drama into a philosophical comedy.
A stage adaptation conceived as a celebration of sexuality and a formative journey to love and sexual discovery between women, in a period when that relationship is frowned upon.