Abi Morgan's devastating play allows us a glimpse into the minds of four women as their world turns.
Abi Morgan is an award-winning writer across theatre, film and television. She was nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the Olivier Awards 2002 and shortlisted for the Allied Domecq Award at the Bush Theatre. A BAFTA award-winning writer, on film, she wrote the screenplay for The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep and Shame, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender. For television, her credits include BBC2's The Hour (Winner Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing).
Splendour is a barbed dance between four women, each with something
to prove or hide.
*Financial Times*
Intricate and multifaceted, like a Cubist painting put to words...
with each turn of the prism, the image grows clearer. And the final
picture is riveting.
*LA Times*
Gripping... What we are shown is four characters trapped in a room,
waiting. But no sooner is this claustrophobic scenario established
than it is twisted and shaken like a kaleidoscope.
*Guardian*
The dense 95 minutes are never less than intriguing... a
disturbingly glamorous perspective on a dictatorship in decline and
disarray.
*What's On Stage*
Writer Abi Morgan has come a long way since Splendour premiered at
the Edinburgh Fringe in the summer of 2000. This tightly wound
four-hander more than merits revisiting and reminds us, in fact, of
why Morgan was seized upon and whizzed off to other, more lucrative
mediums... In short, splendid.
*Evening Standard*
It's good to report that Robert Hastie's meticulous and mountingly
mesmeric revival proves that it has stood the test of time... The
excellent cast have full measure of the edgy musicality of Morgan's
script with its interior monologue asides. Strongly
recommended.
*Independent*
This early play, first seen at the Edinburgh Traverse in 2000,
shows Morgan's continuing fascination with the fragility of power
and the unreliability of language. It is short, demanding and
riveting... It's a gripping play that reminds one of Morgan's
abiding fascination with the fallibility of power and, even if
attention is demanded, it is handsomely repaid.
*Michael Billington, The Guardian*
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