The Breath of Life
From: Wednesday, 16th February 2011
To: Saturday, 26 February 2011
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Synopsis
This is a compelling tale of two women whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understand. Madeleine Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day to her door comes Angela Beale, a popular novelist whom she has met only once before. The progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to echo the hidden course of their lives.
Our Review:
Ron Simpson - 21 February 2011
In the final play of Sheffield Theatres’ David Hare season the opening freeze highlights two women confronting each other with every sign of antipathy, one “welcoming” the other to her apartment (elegantly realised by Alex Eales). For the first scene of The Breath of Life the pleasure lies in the atmosphere of civilised hostility while the audience pieces together the back story through elliptical dialogue and unexpressed emotions.
Frances Beale, it emerges, is a successful popular novelist whose barrister husband Martin has now left her for the charms of Seattle and a young American woman. Madeleine Palmer, who has retired from the British Museum to the Isle of Wight, was for many years Martin’s mistress. Why has Frances decided to visit Madeleine? To mine material for a memoir? To break her writer’s block, as Madeleine maliciously suggests? To obtain closure, as both may have done at the end?
The play was first staged in 20...
Cast
Patricia Hodge (Madeleine)
Isla Blair (Frances)
Creative
David Hare (Author)
Sheffield Theatres (Producer)
Peter Gill (Director)
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