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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open
and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old
friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard.
Tea and catastrophe. Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James
Macdonald.
A small cast, short version of an intimate psychological thriller
taken from Philomel Cottage. Enid rejects her fiance for newcomer
Gerald and moves to a remote country cottage with him - where a
dark and terrible climax takes place.
The love between a mother and daughter turns to jealousy and
bitterness in this intense and personal drama. Ann Prentice falls
in love with Richard Caulfield and hopes for a new life and
happiness. Only her daughter, Sarah, takes an instant, jealous
dislike to him. Resentment slowly corrodes their relationship as
each seeks comfort in the formidable and knowing Dame Laura
Whitstable who remarks, "The trouble with sacrifice is that once
it's made it's not over and done with." "Christie is beady-eyed and
brutally honest on the psychology of the motherdaughter
relationship." THE GUARDIAN "The play is a revelation and its
emotional intensity is at variance with most of her crime plays.
This is Christie writing with her heart rather than her head. She
is not concerned with clues and suspects and alibis but with human
dilemmas and life choices." THE GUARDIAN
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TWIST
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Miles Tredinnick
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Discovery Miles 3 100
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Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter
to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge
and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his
wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the mantle of
avenging his father, continuing the bloodshed until peace is
ultimately found in the rule of law. Zinnie Harris reimagines this
ancient drama, using a contemporary sensibility to rework the
stories, placing the women in the centre. Orestes' leading role is
replaced by his sister Electra, who as a young child witnesses her
father's murder and is compelled to take justice into her own hands
until she too must flee the Furies.
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