Set in a fictional ‘alternate present’, the action takes place in a hospitality facility that is somewhere between an airport lounge and a budget hotel. In the recent past, the powers-that-be have taken the view that the institution of marriage, viewed as the bedrock...
“You can live here on eight dollars a day. Six if you’re careful. Less if you’re very careful.” Set in an expatriate household in a fishing-village in South-East Asia, Gerard is an ever-darkening comedy in a landscape of memory, escape and despair. Are Gerard and his...
Arnold Ridley’s classic drama was first produced in 1925 and filmed no less than three times. A very silly young man accidentally strands six passengers at a small Cornish wayside station. Despite the pyschic stationmaster’s weird stories of a ghost...
The location is an unnamed European city. The period – neither past nor present – is unspecified. The setting is the apartment of Max and Anna Luft. ’The simple fact is that we took our decision long ago. We rehearsed the arguments. We weighed them up. We...
