Halpern and Johnson
From: Wednesday, 23rd July 2008
To: Sunday, 31 August 2008
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Synopsis
The drama opens at the London graveside of Florence Halpern, where her husband of 50 years, Joe, is paying his last respects. He is interrupted by a stranger bearing flowers, Dennis Johnson, a retired accountant who reveals that he was a friend of Halpern’s late wife. Intrigued, Halpern meets Johnson for a picnic in the park where fury, anger, regret, love and loss are digested along with the salt beef sandwich and pickles.
Our Review:
30 July 2008
Joe Halpern is alarmed to see a blue-eyed stranger wearing a suit and bearing a nosegay at his wife’s funeral. “You never bring flowers to a Jewish funeral” he says, but eventually he allows the blond man to place the flowers on the grave, turning aside with a mere vestige of a shudder when he crosses himself.
He soon finds out that the stranger is Dennis Johnson, that he was no stranger to Florence Halpern and in fact they had a close relationship that Joe knew nothing about. He had been her boyfriend when she was seventeen, years before she and Joe had even met. The barriers were too great for them to marry. Johnson’s Roman Catholic parents would not have welcomed a Jewish girl into the family and memories of the war were still strong in Florence’s father, “We just don’t trust anyone any more. We all had a whiff of that gas”. Though they both married other people, they kept their friendship going, meeting three times a year for lunch and conversation.
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Creative
Lionel Goldstein (Author)
New End Theatre (Producer)
Lionel Goldstein (Director)
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