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Wife

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By (author): Samuel Adamson

- And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing.

- Into everything, I think.

It's 1959. Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; his wife Daisy dashes round to the stage door, in love with both Nora and the actress who plays her, thrilled by their promise of escape.

Daisy is at the 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 Robert, but for four couples who come after them over ninety years.

The truth is we have to give up parts of ourselves if we want to be with someone. And what if, before you know this, you run away from the wrong person?

Samuel Adamson's Wife premiered at Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2019.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 115g
  • Dimensions: 125 x 200mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780571354825

About Samuel Adamson

Samuel Adamson's plays include: The Ballad of Hattie and James Wife (both Kiln Theatre) Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios) All About My Mother (from Almodóvar; Old Vic) Gabriel (Shakespeare's Globe) Fish and Company (Soho Theatre/National Youth Theatre) Southwark Fair (National Theatre) Drink Dance Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre/Channel 4) Grace Note (Peter Hall Company/Old Vic) Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre) Frank & Ferdinand (National Theatre Connections); as well as contributions to the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic) Hoard (New Vic Stoke) A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre) Decade (Headlong Theatre) and Urban Scrawl (TheatreVoice/Theatre 503). Adaptations include: Ibsen's Pillars of the Community and Mrs Affleck from Ibsen's Little Eyolf (both at the National Theatre) A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (Leeds Playhouse) The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company/Riverside Studios) and Three Sisters (OSC/Whitehall Theatre); Running Wild based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo (Chichester Festival Theatre/Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi (Dumbfounded Theatre/Arcola Theatre/Radio 3); Bernhard Studlar's Vienna Dreaming (National Theatre Studio); a musical based on George MacDonald's The Light Princess with Tori Amos (National Theatre); Ostrovsky's Larisa and the Merchants (Arcola Theatre); and Jack Maggs from Peter Carey's novel (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Radio includes: Tomorrow Week (Radio 3). Film includes Running for River (Directional Studios/Krug). He was Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush in 1997-8.

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