The Knot of the heart
By: David Eldridge
Series: Modern Plays
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781408153314
Subjects: Self-destructive behavior; Drama; Drug addiction
Description: Why has this happened to us? Things like this don't happen to families like ours. Beautiful and privileged, Lucy is enjoying a burgeoning career in television. But her social drug habit has become a serious addiction, casting a dark shadow over her future happiness. As her charmed life begins to slip away Lucy comes to realise that the devoted support of her family does not come without a price. With themes of love, family and addiction, The Knot of the Heart explores the creeping onset of self-destruction beneath a veneer of respectability. Full of David Eldridge's trademark lyricism within everyday family life and interaction, this is a play where emotions are high and relationships are sensitively written. Ultimately hopeful and redemptive, The Knot of the Heart is atmospheric and poetic without undermining the all-too-believable characters' realism.