"The three plays aren't linked narratively as I wanted audiences to be able to experience them as individual works. Beginning tells the story of a couple on the edge of 40 who have just met and the 100 minutes it takes them to kiss. Middle is the story of a late fortysomething couple whose marriage hangs in the balance at 4am. In End, Alfie and Julie must decide how to live the end of their relationship."
"The plays consider relationships and the different kinds of loneliness that exist in and out of them. They share worlds in north London and Essex; they're all single-action plays that exist in real time. In all three there's music and dancing, some food and drink and tidying up. The men all support West Ham United. There's a sense of progression. Beginning begins at about 2am and by the time End ends it's about 8.20am."
"The first previews had flown and I felt relaxed, enjoying the preshow music and its house party vibes. But instead of the play's two characters, Laura and Danny, awkwardly flirting in her north London flat, I found myself imagining a couple 10 years older, in a big house in Essex. A relationship at breaking point. Middle. Fuck, I thought, and pushed the thought away as the show started."
Beginning, Middle and End form a thematic trilogy about couples at successive life stages confronting relationship crises. Beginning follows a couple on the edge of 40 who have just met and the 100 minutes it takes them to kiss. Middle portrays a late-fortysomething couple whose marriage hangs in the balance at 4am. End focuses on Alfie and Julie, approaching 60, who must decide how to live the end of their relationship. All three plays are single-action, occur in real time, and are set in north London and Essex around late 2015 and early 2016. Each contains music, dancing, food and drink; the men support West Ham United. The plays track a temporal progression from about 2am in Beginning to about 8.20am by the end.
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