Vincent River
By: Philip Ridley
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: After her son, Vincent, is murdered in a homophobic attack, Anita must come to terms with her loss, and the hidden fact of his sexuality, an aspect of his identity that she had refused to countenance while he was alive. This grief and acceptance is complicated by the arrival of Davey, a battered and bruised seventeen-year-old boy, who confesses to Anita that he cannot escape Vincent's ghost. Anita believes that Davey has come to admit to the murder, but it is a deeper crime, a crime of omission, that is haunting her son's lover. 'Vincent River' was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2000.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 2009.