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Available onlineJanie Dee stars as a newly bereaved Hampstead widow in this poignant, ventriloquising monologue by Terence Rattigan

“I despise middle-aged women who talk to themselves at the dead of night,” says Rosemary Hodge, a widow who is knocking back whisky at midnight and talking on her own in this grief-soaked digital production of Terence Rattigan’s monologue.
It is not clear whether her verdict on middle-aged women is an ironic statement or born of self-loathing, but it is complicated by the fact that Rosemary believes (or half believes) she is talking to her late husband, Geoffrey, who recently died in a “drunken accident” in the drawing room in which she sits, although she suspects it was suicide. Continue reading...