An old play and a new one feature two London married couples almost a century apart, separated not just by time but class.

Fallen Angels
MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY, LONDON

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DORFMAN, NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON

In 1925, Julia and Fred Sterroll have been wed for 10 years but, over breakfast in their art deco apartment above Park Lane, they conclude that the passion has left their marriage – a situation exacerbated by the arrival of a postcard from Julia’s former French lover, announcing his impending visit to the capital. In 2016, fifty-something Julie and Alfie have been together for 35 years in their terraced house in Haringey, north London. A few years back, Alfie survived cancer; but it has returned and spread and, as they discuss over a breakfast he is too weak to eat, he has just told the specialist he wishes to cease treatment.

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