Jacqui Lodge, Diane Quadling, Jez Watt & Peter Beadle
An ingenious set greets the audience of this play: the cross section of a Victorian house that has been divided into three flats. The owner, a fastidious, elegant executive named Barbara, contentedly occupies the ordered, male free ground floor visible in its entirety. The basement ceiling can be seen and this is where Gilbert, a boorish postman and handyman, is painting a nude study of his landlady. Barbara is letting Nikki, a schoolfriend, and her fiance, Hamish, use the upstairs flat (where the audience can only see the bottom two feet) even though she has taken an instant dislike to him. Ever life's victim, Nikki is destined to suffer yet again when Barbara succumbs to an unexpected and violent passion. |
Jacqui Lodge, Jez Watt & Diane Quadling