stage plays by ian hornby
Ages flexible, but need to be compatible with relationships.
From The Harleqin Players, Northwich, for their brilliant, and unjustly unrewarded, performance at the Hale and Altrincham Festival.
Julie's husband
Calvin's wife
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Julie | On the day of friend Tony's funeral, Calvin is very
bitter. He sees his own life with wife Lynn fading away with no meaning.
The shallow life of two friends at the funeral only manages to sink him
further into the depths, where he examines before our eyes why life is so
meaningless. One of them reflects that he wants to be remembered after he
dies, and Calvin points out that nobody is remembered for who they are,
only what they did. Everyone remembers that Christopher Wren built St
Paul's, but nobody knows what colour hair he had, or whether he wore a
moustache. When we're young, we look forward to things. When we're older
we look back. Calvin realises he's missed the one time in his life when he
wasn't looking forward or back, he was actually satisfied, and he missed
it. Lynne and Calvin announce to their friends that their marriage is
splitting because of an affair with Tony, the recently deceased. This
intrigues their friends, but the revelation that it was Calvin who was
having the affair and the knowledge that Tony died from AIDS, quickly
breaks the final friendship apart, leading to a tragic
conclusion.
Ages flexible, but need to be compatible with relationships. From The Harleqin Players, Northwich, for their brilliant, and unjustly unrewarded, performance at the Hale and Altrincham Festival.
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Julie's husband |
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Calvin's wife |
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