Do3 - My Heart's a Suitcase

[french frank]

Tonight at 8pm

"David Edgar introduces a new production of "My Heart's a Suitcase" by Clare McIntyre. McIntyre was one of the new generation of women playwrights who emerged with huge impact in the 1980s and this was one of her best-known plays from 1990."

I await reviews before listening

Clare McIntyre's obituary may be relevant.

[DracoM]

Well, number one, the two central women had such similar voices that it really was tricky to tell them apart some [much?] of the time. Rather interesting mismatch between street-ish slang at times in the mouths of rather posh sounding actors? Tended to emasculate the language's intended impact.

Squatter very well obsered blarney - v.well played too.
Kid who menaces with imaginary gun on train- v.good indeed.
Suitcase - odd. I await help to understand that fully.
Colin's [woman] who owns flat - good in parts. Ambivalent.

Felt like intedned to be a modern morailty play, and for radio, just a bit over-preachy, and incidentally, VERY reminiscent of Pinter in structure / syntax, sense jumps / quirks and tricks, and even linguistic resonances.