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Absent Friends
Alan Ayckbourn
The Friends
by Arnold Wesker
Synopsis
A play about surviving one's mistakes and the knowledge of death.
The friends are designers of 'twentieth-century interiors', owners of a small chain of shops that market their ideas.
The only other characters are an upper-class girl who has attached herself to their energy - and old Macey - the manager of the biggest store.
During the play, all are asembled in Esther's room, who's dying of leukemia.
From a sense of disequilibrium the characters progress to a painful readjustment to living.
First, however, they have to come to terms with the burden of their own experience, their aging - and the reality of death which has already claimed Esther.
The attempt to deal with this is their absorbing concern in this bitter-sweet play.
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
The Friends is a play written by Arnold Wesker and published by Samuel French .
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