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Summary
I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent.
Psalm 22
Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, a film actor playing the poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs. He is met by the grandmother and they dance together to ‘Lili Marlene’. In the morning they are discovered, sharing a blanket, by Patrick and his three daughters. Patrick craves tobacco, whiskey and a date with the local barmaid; the sisters yearn for sensation and escape.
A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love and loss, The Night Season premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004.
RebeccaLenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s plays include The Night Season (National Theatre, Critics’ Circle’s Most Promising Playwright Award, 2004) and Her Naked Skin (National Theatre, 2008), which was the first play by a living female playwright to be staged on the Olivier stage. Other plays include The Invisible (The Bush), Jane Wenham, Soho, The Painter (Arcola), The Typist (Riverside Studios), The Lioness (Tricycle),…
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