Blue Heart consists of two related short plays, both

teasingly entertaining and brilliantly executed, one

about a father and daughter, the other about a mother

and son.

In Heart s Desire, a father, mother and aunt are

waiting for a woman to arrive home after years in

Australia. In Blue Kettle a middle-aged man and his

girlfriend are involved in a con trick, making elderly

women believe they are the man s long-lost mother. But

neither play is what it seems. Something catastrophic is

happening which disrupts and destroys them.

Blue Heart, a co-production by Out of Joint Theatre

Company and the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Max

Stafford-Clark, was seen at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival

and on tour before its London premiere.

Caryl Churchill is the author of over twenty plays

including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud

Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money and Mad Forest, seen

and admired all over the world