Conservatory

By: Michael West

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Paperback | 2 May 2014 | Edition Number 1

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64 Pages

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'I wasn't throwing up. I was dying. I was very ill . . . And do you know what? In the middle of all that . . . malaise, I remember thinking "This is what it's like to be married." But I'd do it again'

An elderly couple sit in a dark room in their house, doing the crossword, taking their tablets and knitting, all the while raking over a traumatic past that has all but destroyed them.

Conservatory is a compelling play about loss and family which shows that happiness is not a necessary condition of togetherness. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2014.

Industry Reviews

In West's portrait of a soured relationship . . . telling details build only incrementally; by the end, however, the audience has formed a troubling vision of a marriage marred by human weakness and gut-wrenc[h]ing tragedy. -- Daragh Reddin * Metro Herald *
Conservatory is a marvellous play, absorbing, intense and elegant... as a meditation on the disintegration of marriage into a hell of weary familiarity... it paints an exquisitely aware canvas of human frailty and unfulfilled need. -- Emer O'Kelly * Irish Independent *
West's writing is remarkable for its restraint. There is no showboating, just a consistent employment of language as neat and cutting as a surgical implement. -- Alan O'Riordan * Irish Examiner *

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