Abandonment
By Kate Atkinson
Directed by Catherine McMechan

A comedy that is also a thought-provoking tale of love and death, jealousy and bitterness, and the legacies we leave. Elizabeth, a childless, forty-ish historian, moves into a flat in a converted Victorian mansion where she is constantly invaded by her adoptive mother and sister, her best friend, an amorous photographer and a New Age builder. But Elizabeth also disturbs the ghosts of the house's past occupants, including Agnes, an 1860s governess who was seduced by her Darwinian employer, aroused the jealousy of his spiritualist wife, and came to an unfortunate end. 

As the play proceeds, echoes between past and present multiply, reminding us that perhaps the past isn’t as far away as we think.  Abandonment was written by well-known novelist Kate Atkinson (Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Life After Life, God in Ruins, and Case Histories), and premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2000.

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