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Previews and Matinees:
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WRITTEN BY STEPHEN LOWE
DIRECTED BY MATT ASTON
Design - Mark Walters
Lighting Design - Ciaran Bagnall
Digital Media Designer - Barret Hodgson
Sound Designer - Drew Baumohl
CAST:
Lawrence - Tim Dantay
Harry Crosby - Tristan Tait
Caresse Crosby - Clare Calbraith
Frieda Lawrence - Marion Bailey
In 1929, DH Lawrence and his wife visited two wealthy young Americans, hoping they might finance an edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover. The quartet proves to be a potent, unpredictable combination.
Penniless and desperate to find a publisher for his “Lady Chatterley”, Lawrence and Frieda turn to a legendary couple of the American “lost generation”, the drug fuelled poet and publisher Harry Crosby and his beautiful sculptress wife, Caresse. Their passionate experiment in the total excess of living collides with the Lawrence’s more painful relationship revealing a major clash of culture, of class and of sexual desire.
Empty Bed Blues is a tragic-comic stage poem on life, death, and, above else, the nature of love and betrayal. It is based on the diaries of all four of the characters.
This play has scenes of nudity and strong language
“Stephen Lowe uses this visit brilliantly and movingly to bring into focus the stresses in the relationship between Lawrence and Frieda in those final years”
- Professor Keith Sagar author of The Life of DH Lawrence and editor of vol.VII in the Cambridge edition of Lawrence's Collected Letters.
SIGNED PERFORMANCE
WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 8PM
AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY 19 MARCH 8PM
WITH TOUCH TOUR 7.15PM
Thursday 12th March
POST-SHOW TALK with Peter Preston, Matt Aston and Stephen Lowe.
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