Twenty minutes. One chair. Your heart: destroyed.
A man sits alone remembering his love affair with the girl his best friend won.
Acting
Woolf's entire body becomes grief personified.
Direction
Morahan trusts silence to demolish you.
Director
Christopher Morahan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single day on leftover BBC studio time, with Woolf rehearsing the monologue for six months beforehand.
Part of BBC's 'Play for Today' experimental strand that launched Alan Bennett and Mike Leigh—this is television treating working-class interiority as high art.
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