dames
A stage with two dames speaks for itself.
Despite a plot that lacks originality--what can be sadder than two sixty-somethings ladies mourning for their love for the same man--seeing Judi Dench and Maggie Smith together on stage is a treat!
Madeleine: Do you think at this moment-no, not literally at this moment, I mean in eight hours' time-do you think a man will get up in a glass house on an estuary in Seattle and sit at breakfast talking about us?
Frances: No.
Madeleine: Good. Then shall we not talk about him? Shall we just have a pleasant cup of coffee? It's more dignified.
The Breath of Life, David Hare
Said the blurb on the back of the playscript, "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." is the motto for this play. Funny, it reminds me of something I read on Madeline Albright's broken marriage ages ago, "Revenge is the dish best served cold."