Mrs Affleck

a new play by Samuel Adamson
from Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf

Watch a video interview of Claire Skinner discussing the play, rehearsals and her character, Rita Affleck.

4 STARS thelondonpaper

‘Claire Skinner is magnetic.’ Financial Times
‘Marianne Elliott's fine, erotically charged production.’ Evening Standard

I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen.
Not on a Sunday. Not in England.

I want things how they were… My perfect poet…
1945, one afternoon in London – on the floor,
every last undiluted drop of you.

After six lonely weeks with nobody but her crippled little boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so craves, there is only torment as Alfred’s possessive half-sister arrives, and he announces his great revelation.

Marianne Elliott (War Horse, Harper Regan) directs Claire Skinner in the title role of Samuel Adamson’s new play which takes Ibsen’s Little Eyolf as the inspiration for a passionate and tragic tale of obsessive love, set on the Kent coast in 1950s England (read more about Little Eyolf on Wikipedia).

'Fundamentally... it remains a private story about what it means to love, and what happens when those who need love the most feel the loss of it.' Samuel Adamson, writer of Mrs Affleck.

 

 

• View beautiful production photos
• Read The Independent on Sunday's interview with Claire Skinner
• Read an article by Samuel Adamson in The Independent
• Samuel Adamson talks about his new play, read the full article
• Read about the books used in the rehearsal room

 

Mrs Affleck finished on: 29 April 2009