Death in Bournemouth

Airpocket Theatre Company returns with Barbara Dryhurst and Mark Spalding in this blackly comic triangle of love, jealousy and hate. The drama plays out between a husband and wife about to celebrate their silver wedding.

Mor and Ruth live in an upstairs apartment near the seafront. She’s a vegan activist ex-actress, he’s a professional bore. They are about to celebrate their silver wedding, but he’s made their marriage a tyranny, with his drinking, his hypochondria, and his unhealthy obsession with the Shelley Summer Theatre.

The mix is already volatile when dark secrets begin to emerge. On the eve of the anniversary, Ruth’s old flame Nick arrives. Nick is divorced, and on this visit he learns that it was Mor who encouraged his wife to leave him, and helped persuade the court to award custody of the children to Nick’s wife. The atmosphere turns deadly, as a fatal three-cornered dance of hate and jealousy becomes a dance of Death In Bournemouth!