With All My
Love I Hate You is
a tense play for two women. Julia is surprised to receive a visit from her
one-time friend Clare – and a little apprehensive too, because for some years
she has been mistress to Jerry, Clare’s husband, and has even borne him a son.
Clare, in a pathetic state of misery following the death of her own small child
and Jerry’s hatred of her, seems just to want to talk to and be comforted by
Julia, but as time passes it becomes clear that she is deliberately goading the
other woman for some purpose of her own. What starts as a quiet and
uncomfortable talk erupts into violence and tragedy, with an ironic twist at
the end.