Southwark Fair

Simon is looking forward to lunch with Patrick Mulligan, the first man he slept with nearly twenty years previously, while playing Puck in a school production. It soon becomes apparent that Patrick is expecting to see not Simon, but the boy who played Lysander, and their lunch is cut short. When Simon is approached by Patrick's wife the situation becomes increasingly tortured and darkly comic.

Southwark Fair premiered at the National Theatre, London, in February 2006.

Auteur

Samuel Adamson's plays include Clocks and Whistles (Time Out award), Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie (both for the Bush), and Grace Note (Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic). He has also written new versions of Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company) and A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse).