Conservatory
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:7th Mar '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A brand new play by award-winning playwright Michael West.
'I wasn't throwing up. I was dying. I was very ill . . . And do you know what? In the middle of all that . . . malaise, I remember thinking "This is what it's like to be married." But I'd do it again' An elderly couple sit in a dark room in their house, doing the crossword, taking their tablets and knitting, all the while raking over a traumatic past that has all but destroyed them. Conservatory is a compelling play about loss and family which shows that happiness is not a necessary condition of togetherness. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2014.
In West’s portrait of a soured relationship . . . telling details build only incrementally; by the end, however, the audience has formed a troubling vision of a marriage marred by human weakness and gut-wrenc[h]ing tragedy. -- Daragh Reddin * Metro Herald *
Conservatory is a marvellous play, absorbing, intense and elegant... as a meditation on the disintegration of marriage into a hell of weary familiarity... it paints an exquisitely aware canvas of human frailty and unfulfilled need. -- Emer O'Kelly * Irish Independent *
West’s writing is remarkable for its restraint. There is no showboating, just a consistent employment of language as neat and cutting as a surgical implement. -- Alan O'Riordan * Irish Examiner *
ISBN: 9781472579713
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 95g
64 pages