The play is set in two adjacent rooms in a run-down hotel. In the first, a wretched woman who can no longer face the tragedy of her existence, murders her social-outcast husband and then commits suicide. In the second, the neighbour, an unemployed voyeur, watches the events unfold through a hole in the wall but does nothing to stop them. He then dispassionately describes what he has seen to his lover. The couple cruelly dissect the deaths of their neighbours while remaining unaware of their own tragic alienation.
First performance: 27/03/2013
Last performance: 24/05/2013
NATIONAL THEATRE