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| Rosalind Adler |
On a set which feels a lot like a dolls' house, my new play Sympathy Pains, which runs at the gorgeous new Park Theatre from tomorrow evening (3rd September), is a short and sweet comedy drama about a man who believes he is with child... it’s also about the crisis in the reversal of power between men and women today.
Guy and Chris have been married for thirty years. He's a writer who works from home in his dressing gown and jeans, trying in vain to recreate the success he had with his one-hit wonder FRUITGUMS twenty years ago. Chris, his wife, works on a high floor in a shiny, big office and outearns him by squillions. She has become the husband she thought she’d marry and Guy has got used to feeling like a failure: useless, pointless, purse-whipped. At his lowest ebb, when all seems lost, a miracle happens and Guy finds himself - he is quite certain - with new life growing inside him. (I have to tell you here that Crispin Letts who plays Guy can do extraordinary things with his tummy - it's worth coming along just for that!)
