Middle Age Spread (New Zealand Playscripts) - Hall, Roger

Clean, tight, unmarked copy; scrape to the back cover; some rubbing to covers; stain to upper inside corner of ffep; age tanned; otherwise minimal wear; As a conventional dinner proceeds, a series of flashbacks to the preceding weeks shows hidden links and stresses among all three couples. In his review of the original Circa Theatre production, Ian Fraser wrote, ' the short, grey dusk of the middle-class soul is the province of comedy rather than the stuff of tragedy.' This neatly captures the mood of a play that is at the same time very funny and painfully revealing. Many people after seeing it swore never to give another dinner party.