By James Saunders
Directed by Barry Grant
Season: 22 September - 2 October 1982
As the play begins, Anne and Mervyn, a seemingly well-settled middle-aged couple, are awaiting the arrival of Helen and David, a younger couple who were formerly their neighbours and close friends. Their reunion begins on a light and humorous note, but as the after-dinner talk grows more serious we become aware that the two couples had once engaged in an adulterous arrangement - and both have found it difficult to deal with the self-recriminations which this has created. As the conversation becomes more revealing - and provocative - the underlying values of human existence are drawn into question. In the end the inescapability of the deep-seated guilt is powerfully evident.
Cast:
Mervyn - John Jefferies
Anne - Kathleen Johnson
David - Russell Holmes
Helen - Jill Grierson
Directed by Barry Grant
Season: 22 September - 2 October 1982
As the play begins, Anne and Mervyn, a seemingly well-settled middle-aged couple, are awaiting the arrival of Helen and David, a younger couple who were formerly their neighbours and close friends. Their reunion begins on a light and humorous note, but as the after-dinner talk grows more serious we become aware that the two couples had once engaged in an adulterous arrangement - and both have found it difficult to deal with the self-recriminations which this has created. As the conversation becomes more revealing - and provocative - the underlying values of human existence are drawn into question. In the end the inescapability of the deep-seated guilt is powerfully evident.
Cast:
Mervyn - John Jefferies
Anne - Kathleen Johnson
David - Russell Holmes
Helen - Jill Grierson