- 144 pages
- English
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The Lady from the Sea
About this book
Ellida, the lighthouse-keeper's daughter, is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea. When a former lover returns from years of absence, she is forced to decide between freedom and the new life she has made for herself. Relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s, Elinor Cook's version of Henrik Ibsen's shattering 1888 play about duty and self-determination premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
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ACT ONE
The arbour of DOCTOR WANGELās garden, at the back of an old colonial wooden house, on a leafy hill, on a Caribbean island, sometime in the mid-1950s.
The garden is fragrant with jasmine, hibiscus and bougainvillea.
A path can be seen, which leads to a deep, almost frighteningly dark lagoon.
There are large tamarind trees at the edges of the garden, and a fence.
Just outside the fence, there is an artistās easel and a box of watercolours.
BALLESTRED is attempting to hoist a large flag.
BOLETTE, who is carrying an embarrassment of flowers, is watching him.
BALLESTRED Like that?
BOLETTE Sort ofā¦
BALLESTRED Itās a bit trickyā¦
BOLETTE Youāre nearly there.
Keep goingā¦
Thatās it!
It looks much better now, doesnāt it?
Like weāre really celebrating something.
They look at the flag, pleased.
BALLESTRED Are you expecting a guest?
The governor himself, Iād imagine, with all this fineryā¦
BOLETTE Um.
Beat.
You might remember Mr Arnholm.
BALLESTRED Rings a bellā¦
Clever chap.
With the big books and the geometry set.
BOLETTE Thatās him.
Heās been in Europe the last eight yearsā¦
This will be the first time heās set foot on the island since 1943.
BALLESTRED Wasnāt he your tutor?
BOLETTE Well, yes.
But.
Heās more of a friend than anything else.
BALLESTRED To your father?
BOLETTE To all of us.
LYNGSTRAND enters.
LYNGSTRAND Helloā¦?
BOLETTE (To BALLESTRED.) Hold these, will you?
She thrusts a bunch of flowers into BALLESTREDās hands and turns hastily away from LYNGSTRAND.
LYNGSTRAND Your mother said I should come and visit, if
I was passing.
And I was.
Soā¦
BOLETTE Right.
Yes.
She stares at LYNGSTRAND for a moment, unsure what to say.
More flowers.
There arenāt enough flowers.
LYNGSTRAND looks at the riot of flowers around him.
LYNGSTRAND Umā¦?
BOLETTE hurries inside.
BALLESTRED Could I just cheat you that way a moment?
LYNGSTRAND What?
BALLESTRED Youāre in my light.
LYNGSTRAND moves reluctantly out of the way.
He wanders over to the easel, peers at BALLESTREDās painting.
LYNGSTRAND Charmingā¦
BALLESTRED Itās the waterfall.
At the lagoon.
LYNGSTRAND Yes, Iād worked that out.
BALLESTRED Although obviously Iām not going to leave it just like that!
LYNGSTRAND Oh goodā¦
BALLESTRED Iām going to add a figure.
Here.
LYNGSTRAND Yes I think it needs it.
BAL...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Characters
- The Lady from the Sea
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information