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The Night Season

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  4w, 3m

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

The Night Season
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love and loss which premiered at the National Theatre in 2004. Late at night, shoeless in the rain, a film actor playing the poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs. He is met by the grandmother and …

The Night Season

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    4w, 3m

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A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love and loss which premiered at the National Theatre in 2004. Late at night, shoeless in the rain, a film actor playing the poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs. He is met by the grandmother and they dance together. In the morning they are discovered, sharing a blanket, by Patrick and his three daughters. Patrick craves tobacco, whiskey and a date with the local barmaid; the'sisters yearn for sensation and escape.
M3 (30s, 50s) F4 (20s, 30s, 70s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting Simple settings

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Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz was born in England in 1968. One of her first works, The Night Season, won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. In 2008, Lenkiewicz's acclaimed piece Her Naked Skin became the first play written by a living female playwright to b ...
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