In the Glasshouse - Play
Saturday 25 November 2006
In The Glasshouse by Ruth Kennedy tells the moving story of Rebecca, a woman who contracts bi-polar disorder and charts how it affects her life and those around her over a period of nine months. It is in this same time frame that her sister-in-law Naomi is pregnant with the child of Rebecca’s recently dead brother and we see the struggle both women face with their own and each others problems. We also witness how the circumstances of their lives affect their relationships with family members, boyfriends, and their attitudes to life in general. The play deals with life and loss, emotional and psychological, coping with tragedy and illness and ultimately hope. Set in a conservatory which is all at once a haven, a source of inspiration, a prison, a preserve of memory and a symbol of pregnancy, In The Glasshouse is a poignant story in which life, like the wind is ever-changing.