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Strange
Interlude

By Simon Stone after Eugene O’Neill Director Simon Stone

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 5 May – 17 June 2012

    Three decades before he wrote Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill wrote a sprawling and adventurous masterpiece the likes of which Broadway had never seen. Almost a century later, there is still no other play like Strange Interlude.

    Twenty-year-old Nina Leeds has lost the love of her life in the war. Overcome with grief, she quits university, falls out with her father and moves away from home. What follows is a breathtaking journey through 25 years in Nina’s life, as she pursues a series of sexual flings to console herself, eventually settles down in a comfortable but unexciting marriage with Sam Evans, then begins a 15-year affair with his best friend Ned Darrell. One of the few modern plays to interweave soliloquy and dialogue, Strange Interlude offers a touching insight into the minutiae of our daily worries, joys and hopes, set against the vast backdrop of life’s irreversible decisions.

    Emily Barclay (The Seagull, That Face, Gethsemane) takes on one of the great female roles of twentieth-century drama. In the vein of his 2011 rewrite of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, wunderkind Simon Stone creates a contemporary version of this truly amazing Pulitzer Prize winner.

    Please note: Strange Interlude contains some nudity and low-level coarse language.

    Team

    By Simon Stone after Eugene O’Neill
    Director Simon Stone
    Set Designer Robert Cousins
    Costume Designer Mel Page
    Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
    Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
    Composition & Sound Design Secondment Marty Jamieson
    Stage Manager Eva Tandy
    Assistant Stage Manager Rebecca Poulter

    Cast

    Akos Armont
    Emily Barclay
    Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke
    Mitchell Butel
    Callum McManis
    Kris McQuade
    Eloise Mignon
    Anthony Phelan
    Toby Schmitz
    Toby Truslove

    Videos

    Rehearsal images by Heidrun Lohr
    Production images by Heidrun Lohr

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