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Aching Parts

New Year’s Eve at the Savoy, Liz and Derek, ageing and in love, are planning to say goodbye. One last night together. After meeting Abigail, will they be able to go through with it.

A funny and poignant drama about how we end it all.

The springboard for the play was Rachel Aviv's chilling New Yorker article How The Elderly Lose Their Rights 
in which an elderly couple, Rudy and Rennie North, lose everything they have when the county court  appoints them a guardian. Worth a read.

Roles:  2 Female/1 Male 
Running time: 90mins

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  • Home
  • Blog
  • POETRY
    • Three Poems from Three Years
    • Eve
    • Via Dolorosa
    • Unfolding
    • Street Scene
    • a disappearing
    • Said and done
    • Ingres and Delacroix share a coffee
    • If you follow the silk road
    • n.b. for Barney
    • Who Can Erase The Traces?
  • Theatre
    • Aching Parts
    • Mooring
    • The Right Kind of Violence
    • Vex
    • Take me to where the arrows no longer fall
    • Yellow Fever
    • Own Goal
    • Just Like Flies
    • Snap
    • Home
  • Fictions
    • Gross
    • The 7.22
    • For Those Who Trespass
    • Karaoke
    • We Only Notice When It's Gone
    • This is a story that I am going to make a story out of
    • Les Anglais en Vacances
    • She
    • La Comedie Humaine
  • LIVEWORKS
    • After Bacchae at the National Theatree
    • After Nye at the National Theatre
    • Watching Coriolanus at the National Theatre
    • Watching Phaedra at the National Theatre
    • Notes from a wanderer
  • News
  • Contact