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Mrs Affleck

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

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 in 1950s England (read more about Little Eyolf on Wikipedia).

View exclusive rehearsal photos.

Samuel Adamson (writer of Southwark Fair and an adaptation of Ibsen's Pillars of the Community) talks about his new play: ‘Mrs Affleck is about the 1950s, the Second World War, marriage, brothers, sisters, death, parents, teenagers, the English seaside, and rats. Read the full article.

New article: Bookshop Talk
Elly Green, Staff Director on Mrs Affleck, describes the books used in the rehearsal room: 'Researching Mrs Affleck has been an exciting process, especially because Samuel Adamson has transplanted the original Ibsen into a completely fresh era and location' Read the full article.