Heather Gardner

Description

All the rooms reek of lavender and rose petals. There's something dead about it. Like flowers the day after a ball. Returning to her home town in the house of her dreams, her husband with a new job on the horizon, and a feeling of change in the air. Yet, for Heather, there is only the feeling of boredom, a feeling as futile as it is fatal. A powerful and emotionally charged play about a woman's separation and isolation from the affluent, materialistic society that she has become a part of. Set in 1960s Edgbaston, Heather Gardner is a fresh and stylish new take on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. It is written by one of the UK's most promising young writers Robin French, whose first play, Bear Hug, won the Royal Court Young Writer's Festival and was produced at the Royal Court in 2004, where it earned an extended run.

Robin French's plays include Bear Hug (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and subsequent productions in Italy, Germany, Ireland and Poland), Africa and Pigeon (Flight 5065 on the London Eye), and Breakfast Hearts/Choirplay (Theatre 503). Robin was chosen by the Observer as one of the country's most promising talents. He is writer in residence at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. His new sitcom Cuckoo (co-written with Kieron Quirke) recently showed on BBC3 with a high-profile cast.

Robin French . . . has done a brilliant job with this adaptation * Whatsonstage *