Passion Play

Passion Play by Peter Nicholls.

Comfortably married for twenty-five years, James and Eleanor’s world is turned upside down when James agrees to a secret rendezvous with their recently widowed friend, Kate.

As the lies mount up, the marriage is stripped bare, revealing the illicit desires and hidden passions that lie beneath the everyday façade.

Passion Play is a potent mix of desire, intimacy and deception, deploying both humour and poignancy to devastating effect in a theatrical tour de force. This modern classic by Peter Nichols premiered in 1981 and won the Evening Standard award for Best New play.