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2006
production by The Actors Workshop Theatre, Chicago 2005 production by the Sanford Meisner Theater, Chelsea 2000 production by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Sometimes I feel as if I could reach out and touch the past. I think people's lives sometimes imprint themselves on houses. People who've led dramatic lives. Passionate, eventful lives. Not like ours. Well, not like mine anyway. Do you believe in ghosts? Elizabeth just wants to be alone. She's moved to her new house, a converted Victorian mansion alive with history, character, woodworm, dry rot and a suspected case of deathwatch beetle. But worse than that, she's besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder and a photographer are all determined to make their mark. And a former tenant, disturbed from her resting-place by Elizabeth's arrival, stirs long-forgotten memories. But when it comes to the crunch, which one of them will be there for her? A play about love, death, identity and evolution, Abandonment is a delicious mixture of comedy and Chaos Theory, reminding us that the past is not as far away as we might think. Purchase the script at Amazon.co.uk or the Traverse Theatre. |