Mean Tears

Set in contemporary London, this ironic, unsparing and heartfelt play is about fractured love affairs, passionate and callous. “This is a romantic drama which intelligently and movingly captures a clenched English intellectual world of lost friendship and sexual treachery, a world peopled by characters who all have the emptiness of a dead vodka bottle. Mean Tears is about sexual and romantic ownership; it’s also about despair and revenge in a society where answer-phones are used like iron lungs and where possession is nine-tenths of the raw reality.” -Sheridan Morley, Punch, 1987.
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WRITTEN BY
Peter Gill

DIRECTED BY
Meredith McCarthy

PERFORMANCE RUN
June 4 – July 11

SEASON
Season 1

Set in contemporary London, this ironic, unsparing and heartfelt play is about fractured love affairs, passionate and callous. “This is a romantic drama which intelligently and movingly captures a clenched English intellectual world of lost friendship and sexual treachery, a world peopled by characters who all have the emptiness of a dead vodka bottle. Mean Tears is about sexual and romantic ownership; it’s also about despair and revenge in a society where answer-phones are used like iron lungs and where possession is nine-tenths of the raw reality.” Sheridan Morley, Punch, 1987 

CAST
Julian | Dan Meyer
Stephen | Peter Forster
Paul | Brian Leahy
Nell | Kris Buckley
Cecelia | Dara Modglin