Details

The Yalta Game - Two holiday makers meet when experienced seducer, Dmitry, introduces the married but restless Anna to 'The Yalta Game'. As they create outrageous and unlikely life stories for fellow tourists and passersby they fall into a holiday romance lived at the highest level of fantasy. In their desire to make life more interesting they become lost in their own self deception, until even they cannot tell where reality ends and the imaginary begins. Adapted from Anton Chekhov's short story, The Lady with the Lapdog, The Yalta Game is a masterclass in spinning tall tales. Elegy For A Lady - A lone Man enters a boutique in search of a gift for his terminally ill younger mistress. As the shop Proprietress tries to help him choose, she begins to assume the persona of the elusive mistress and they experience a brief, poignant moment of closeness. Her consolations provoke unexpected confidences and together they face deepseated fears of loneliness, growing older and the disappointments of love and marriage, in a single scene that is both haunting and touching. Elegy For A Lady is one half of Two-Way Mirror by Arthur Miller, two plays which question truth and fiction, reality and illusion.

Creatives/Company

Company: Stephen Joseph Theatre Company
Director: Chris Monks