My Heart's a Suitcase
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: September 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781854590725
Subjects: Drama texts: from c 1900 -; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Plays / Drama; Plays
Description: This play about fear and materialistic longing compares an angrily impoverished waitress and a philosophical ceramics teacher in the early stages of multiple sclerosis who are sharing a borrowed, run down seaside apartment for the weekend. Visitors include the shopaholic wife of the landlord, a drunken misfit and two spectral intruders: Pest, a bad memory and Luggage, the Patron Saint of Heavy Burdens.