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Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 1m
Mike Leigh
War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin.
But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?
First performed in the Cottlesloe auditorium of the National Theatre on 21st September 2011
This exquisitely observed, profoundly quiet slice of 1950s suburban life circles around grief of the concealed, Rattigan variety....Leigh meticulously shows us a group of people trapped by middle-class gentility, without ever condescending to them...Be warned, it will take you almost beyond what’s bearable. Sunday Times
A haunting portrait of loss and loneliness. Financial Times
Leigh’s meticulous production potently captures the pain that lurked behind stiff upper lips in the England of the fifties...be warned: brilliant though it often is, GRIEF casts a potent pall of desolation that lingers long after the show itself is over. Daily Telegraph.