Wife by Samuel Adamson
Tuesday 8 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Wednesday 9 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Thursday 10 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Friday 11 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Saturday 12 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Sunday 13 October from 2pm to 4:30pm Thursday 17 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Friday 18 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Saturday 19 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Sunday 20 October from 2pm to 4:30pm Thursday 24 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Friday 25 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Saturday 26 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Sunday 27 October from 2pm to 4:30pm Thursday 31 October from 7:30pm to 10pm Friday 1 November from 7:30pm to 10pm Saturday 2 November from 2pm to 4:30pm
“The truth is we have to give up parts of ourselves if we want to be with someone.”
A love-letter to the power of theatre, and a decade-hopping investigation into marriage, queerness and gender.
Daisy is at a crossroads. Her moral compass tells her to go one way, society the other. What she chooses to do next will have consequences not just for her and her husband, but for four couples over the next ninety years.
With Ibsen’s classic drama of marital discord, A Doll’s House, as its unifying device, the play ranges across the fifties, the eighties, the present and the future.
We meet intertwined characters, gay and straight, over generations, all invested in some way with the concept of ‘wife’, Ibsen’s rebellious Nora being the benchmark against which they judge themselves.
“Challenging and thought-provoking, brimming with pathos, politics and laugh-out-loud moments” Diva Magazine