Mine

Synopsis

They have a beautiful home and a glamorous life. In fact, everything they could wish for. Except the one thing they want most of all. A baby. When they finally decide to adopt, they know only how much they long for a child. But the baby’s troubled mother comes to haunt them and their lives become entangled in a way no-one could have imagined...

Our Review:

10 October 2008

Who is best placed to bring up a child? Is it the natural mother – an addict and prostitute; or a talented, affluent middle-class career woman?That is the provocative question Polly Teale sets herself in Mine, described by Teale as her most personal play to date.

Teale is a remarkable artist, an acclaimed writer, director and with Nancy Meckler, co-artistic director of Shared Experience. Together and individually, they have won many awards - After Mrs Rochester, Jane Eyre (Teale), War and Peace and Mill on the Floss (Teale and Meckler) to name but a few.

Mine however is a departure, a break from Teale’s normal run of adaptations of classics, although she did write the quite shocking, Fallen, interestingly enough, another account of compulsive behaviour. Mine centres around an affluent young couple – he an architect, she unspecified, but something artistic in advertising. Theirs i...

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Bahar - 25 October 2008:

Amazing. I've seen it twice. It is incredibly thought provoking and absolutely phenomenal. ...

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