• Runtime: 120 minutes

• Theatre

by Caryl Churchill

"I’m walking down the street and there’s a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I’ve seen before."

Three old friends and a neighbour sit for a summer of afternoons of tea and company, or is it catastrophe?

The four converse about topics both trivial and serious; family members, lost keys, personal maladies, the only thing missing is the tea which sits on the ground on a tray but is never touched, perhaps because there’s something unspeakably nasty in the water?

Celebrating the often unheard voices of older women, Caryl Churchill's convention-defying play juxtaposes backyard tea with environmental disaster, exploring themes of politics, crisis, communication and female endurance scattered with humour and whimsy.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk