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Stages
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m
"David Storey's starkly observed portrait of an artist in extremis leaves us as close to the core of this eternal enigma as almost anything I have hitherto seen on any stage. He delivers a painful portrait some suggest a self portrait of a man at the…
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Cast Size
4w, 1m -
Target Audience
Adult, Senior
Details
Summary
Stages premiered in the Cottesloe Theatre of the Royal National Theatre in 1992 starring Alan Bates as Fenchurch, a successful novelist and artist from a northern working class background. Now in his fifties and suffering a mental breakdown, he is visited by four women: his daughter, his ex wife, his neighbor and his psychiatrist to whom he recounts his past life.
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Media
"David Storey's starkly observed portrait of an artist in extremis leaves us as close to the core of this eternal enigma as almost anything I have hitherto seen on any stage. He delivers a painful portrait some suggest a self portrait of a man at the very edge of his creative and emotional rationale, a man who, at the very height of his fame as a painter and writer, finds himself going slowly mad.... The intrinsic beauty of the of the writing, of the whole production, is that he takes us step by step with him on this slow descent among the ghosts of his own past." - London Daily Mail.
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.