What a lovely group we had last month! So nice to welcome new and old members!
Because we have been having smaller groups recently on my last trip to London I bought a number of scripts with a smaller cast list! And I propose to start on one of these new, modern, plays next month.
I will be interested in what you think of this play. I think we'll read it in one go and have tea and cake after as it's shorter than a normal play.
Beginning by David Eldridge
This 2017 play is the first of a trilogy of plays to look at love and relationships, it is followed by Middle, but it seems that End has not yet been written! Beginning had excellent reviews and transferred to various theatres after its original run at The National.
Set in the aftermath of Laura's housewarming party at her new flat in Crouch End, Danny, having attended simply as the plus one of a friend, is the last remaining guest. Laura is 38, single, childless and with no immediate family; Danny is 42, divorced, living with his mother and has not seen his daughter for a number of years.
The play begins with them nearly kissing and charts their journey in real time as they both seek to get back to that point. While Laura is clear from the outset that she fancies Danny and wants him to stay over, Danny is reluctant to share his true feelings. Over the course of the play, both begin to open up to one another and share their mutual loneliness and isolation in the city of London and where they are in their lives.
