The Living Room
From: Tuesday, 5th March 2013
To: Saturday, 30 March 2013
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Synopsis
'Since my last confession three weeks ago I have committed adultery twenty-seven times.' On the night of her mother's funeral, Rose Pemberton does not join her Catholic family to say mass. She is in a hotel with Michael, a married psychology lecturer. Graham Greene's powerful and shocking play is a story of sex, sin, and guilt. It unfolds in the mysterious 'living room' of Rose's elderly Catholic uncle and aunts, as a net begins to close around the adulterous couple. With echoes of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Greene captures a dying but irresistibly powerful world.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 11 March 2013
Grahame Greene's first play is 60 years old, but a period piece of such power and warped Catholic emotional intensity that not even the loss of lighting for the first act at a weekend matinée - restored by satanic intervention, surely, so that we could fully appreciate the mess God had made of things - could shake our faith in the actors.
This speaks volumes for Tom Littler's riveting production, which is far superior to the one and only West End revival (in 1987) which, I confidently predicted, would consign the play to the bookshelves; mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Instead, the love triangle of a Catholic teenager, Rose Pemberton (the role that made Dorothy Tutin's name in 1953), the married executor of her mother's will, and his desperately dependent wife, seems all too convincingly familiar; it's hard to think of another modern British play that is so truthfully outspoken about lust, guilt and adultery.
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Creative
Graham Greene (Author)
Primavera (in association with Jermyn Street Theatre) (Producer)
Tom Littler (Director)
Cherry Truluck (Design)
Tim Bray (Lighting)
George Dennis (Sound)
Emily Stuart (Costume)
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