THREE PLAYS
BARBARA LEWIS
When I Love Thee Not
This is an absurd, witty exploration of hell-bent possibilities in Shakespeare’s love tangles, a light new take on the revenge play. The Bard’s heroines acquire lives of their own, steal his own lines to re-invent their roles, and write the Bard himself into their plot.
Pandora’s Box
Passions rage against the backdrop of breathless daily journalism about Europe’s tribulations. A hall of mirrors reflects and disguises the need to control and the need to let go in the private and the public obsessions of lovers, political policy-makers and the correspondents who supposedly keep the record.
Jane Austen: a monologue
Jane Austen was not perfect but she was without conceit and her integrity was as razor-sharp as her wit. This cutting capacity she maintained alongside keeping up appearances, performing the necessary social duties. Her letters, in so far as we can tell, given her sister’s decision destroy the parts she judged private, reveal a woman uncomplaining despite an agonising final illness. She was a literary genius who invented a style of novel and quality of prose as fresh today as two centuries ago. This monologue imagines her thoughts as impending death cut short her own story when there were so many more plots to live out.
ISBN-10: 1911047566
ISBN-13: 978-1911047568
