Author
Michael Law

University and teaching background, specialising in German and French. Previously professionally-performed work includes Aquarium (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Just Us (Questor's, Ealing), Helen of Rhodes (BAC) and A Companion for Clare (Questor's), and he has won a number of prizes for his work. In collaboration with his son, Richard, he has also written a translation of Brecht's Man is Man and Dorst's The Great Denunciation Outside the City Wall. He is a member of the Society of Authors, Player-Playwrights, the Writers' Guild and the New Playwright's Trust.

Synopsis
This is a play about fantasies, that ominously become all too real. "Things happen to us because we're us . . . If we weren't us, different things would happen", as Nina Markham (who is in dress designing) says. And things do happen to her husband, Andrew, a free-lance writer, when she goes away on business.

He may have had some plan for inviting over some girl or other - we are never to know - but these plans are scotched when an old and rather sleazy acquaintance of his, Toby, turns up. Andrew rashly invites him round for a meal; Toby's sexy friend Dee turns up unexpectedly and Andrew finds himself more or less forced to put them up.

Once in the house Toby and Dee play havoc, ransacking the drawers and wardrobes for dresses, making extravagant love, raiding the larder, re-arranging the furniture . . . turning the whole of the Markham's elegant house into a gipsy encampment. Even Nina's unexpected return cannot stop the invasion of their lives. In the end they are forced to face up to their own fantasies - and live with them. View extract.

Cast
4 male, 2 female

Duration
1hr 15mins

Contact
90a Upper Tollington Park
London
UK