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Mother Adam

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

Charles Dyer

Adam's mother is paralysed and he must look after her. He longs to get away from her and marry but deep down he knows that he will never escape. Contained in the volume Red Plush and Trombones, a collection of three Charles Dyer titles, Rattle of a Simple Man, Mother Adam and Staircase, which together make up The Lonely Trilogy.

Mother Adam

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    1w, 1m
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"Beautifully written, with an imagination at once exotic and desperately familiar..." - Sir Harold Hobson, The Sunday Times
"Another lost gem... with a special resonance for anyone who laments the passing of poetic writing in the theatre" - Whatsonstage.com
"... a strangely transfixing oddity. Dyer's linguistic flair puts contemporary writers to shame. His text, much of which strays into a concocted pidgin English, is both muscular and balletic It's a real treat for the ears." - Time Out

Adam.
Mammles, his mother.

  • Setting

    An attic of a Victorian mansion

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"Beautifully written, with an imagination at once exotic and desperately familiar..." - Sir Harold Hobson, The Sunday Times
"Another lost gem... with a special resonance for anyone who laments the passing of poetic writing in the theatre"

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