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BROKEN HEARTED
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3 shows from £24 See page 6
by Lucy Gannon
Lucy Gannon, creator of Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice and Bramwell, is one of the UK’s most sought-after TV writers. Derby LIVE is delighted to be staging her first new play for 20 years. Perspective slips and distorts when the person you love dies too young and too suddenly. The future, which stretched so invitingly before you, is shattered and the past, even the most mundane of pasts, achieves great significance in retrospect. How can Nancy, at the best of times ‘a difficult woman’ keep her emotional balance when Eddie, the love of her life, dies just days before their wedding? And how can she keep his memory alive, and protect it from those who remember him with less affection but perhaps more honesty? Is he destined to become a sainted remote figure, preserved in everyone’s anxiety to speak only good of the dead? Or will he, amazingly and shockingly, walk back into her life in all his fleshy fallibility? And will Nancy ever come to terms with the difference between her perfect dead lover, and the all too imperfect living one? Contains strong language.
Director: Pete Meakin Designer: Nettie Scriven Lighting Designer: Ceri James Sound Designer: Adam McCready
STARRING Kathryn Hunt (main image)
from Coronation Street and Fat Friends and
Steven Blakeley from Heartbeat
Fri 7 - Sat 29 May See diary page 76 for performance times Derby Theatre Tickets from £8. See page 62 for details
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BSL Signed performances Sat 22 May, 2.30pm & Thu 27 May, 7.30pm Audio Described performances Wed 26 May, 7.30pm & Sat 29 May, 2.30pm Post Show Discussion Thu 27 May Twilight Workshops available See p65
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