Cyril's Little Moments of Weakness and Strength

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Cyril s Little Moments of Weakness and Strength is an early Julian Garner play. Set and written in the late 1970s, it charts the relationship between two brothers in their late middle age. Josh, the older, is blind and wheelchair bound. Cyril, the younger, is a harassed yet committed carer. Whatever shreds of independence and fulfilment Cyril may once have had - have long since been whittled away and now the two of them are caught on the treadmill of their day to day existence. This is, by turns, very funny, exasperating and deeply sad. Enter Alice, just turned sixty and lonely, and there is a glimmer of hope for Cyril. The play is a sensitive, witty essay on human frailty from a brilliant storyteller.

Creatives/Company

Author: Julian Garner
Director: Jeffrey Mayhew
Design: Jeffrey Mayhew