Twilight Song E-Book

Kevin Elyot

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

A moving, bittersweet play from the writer of the classic comedy My Night with Reg.  Set over a series of summer evenings in the 1960s and the present day, Twilight Song traces one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.  A mysterious stranger turns up in their past and present – could he be the missing piece of the jigsaw they've been yearning for? Hilarious and heartbreaking, Kevin Elyot's evocative final play proves how powerful our past can be in the present. Twilight Song premiered at Park Theatre, London, in 2017.

Leseprobe

Kevin Elyot

TWILIGHT SONG

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Characters

Twilight Song

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Twilight Song was produced by Cahoots Theatre Company and David Sloan in association with Park Theatre. It was first performed at Park Theatre, London, on 12 July 2017. The cast was as follows:

HARRY

Philip Bretherton

SKINNER/GARDENER

Adam Garcia

ISABELLA

Bryony Hannah

BARRY/BASIL

Paul Higgins

CHARLES

Hugh Ross

Director

Anthony Banks

Designer

James Cotterill

Lighting Designer

Tim Lutkin

Composers & Sound Designers

Ben and Max Ringham

Dialect Coach

Elspeth Morrison

Dramaturg

Sebastian Born

Production Manager

Nick May

Company Stage Manager

Cassie Gallagher

Assistant Stage Manager

Leanne James

Characters

SKINNER

BARRY

BASIL

ISABELLA

CHARLES

HARRY

GARDENER

Setting

The play takes place in the same sitting room of a Victorian villa in North London during the early summers of 1961, 1967 and the present day.

A door leads into the rest of the house. A double-doored French window leads into the garden. The furniture includes a sofa and a 1920s mahogany gramophone cabinet. There’s a fireplace with a mirror above it.

Doubling

SKINNER and GARDENER are played by one actor.

BARRY and BASIL are played by one actor.

Scene One

A grey drizzly afternoon in May, unseasonably dark. A barely discernible veil of mist shrouds the untidy room which seems to have seeped in from outside. A Bose radio/CD player stands on a table next to the 1920s mahogany gramophone cabinet. SKINNER () BARRY ().