Play Details
Context
Artistic Director
George Devine
Dates Performed
Tuesday 8th March 1960
Main House (Downstairs)
Play Details
Synopsis
A rented room in a large house
Rose would tell you she’s living a happy, quiet life but that’s not the whole truth. Nothing is really said in this tantalisingly mundane play, yet the ominous sense of growing danger speaks volumes in the silence.
Do you feel safe? Can you trust that person? Can you trust anyone, in fact?
Will things get better? Will you ever be free?
This play will answer none of those things. Neither for you nor the characters.
Please enjoy your existential crisis.
Cast & Creative
Cast
Thomas Baptiste
Cast
Anne Bishop
Cast
Michael Brennan
Cast
Michael Caine
Cast
John Cater
Cast
Vivien Merchant
Designer
Michael Young
What our readers say
What’s it like reading this play now?
I’m reading this play in 2023 and am startled by how fresh it feels. The language seems to exist in that hazy void between past and present. It’s both familiar and somehow slightly-off which gives it a sense of timelessness. I feel like this play will still read well in another 65 years.
What does it tell us about the past and present?
The present is not what it seems and the past, if left unresolved, can come back to haunt us.
