Summary
Isabella's Room Tramway, Glasgow, 8-11 November
BELGIAN playwright Jan Lauwers grew up surrounded by the past. His father was a doctor by trade but also an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist in his spare time, and their home was packed to the rafters with artefacts from all over the world. As a child, Lauwers later recalled, he thought nothing of going to sleep with a sarcophagus next to his bed.See the full content of this document
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Going Out
Lauwers's father died in 2002, leaving him a collection of some 5,800 items in his will, and it was this hoard that inspired him to write his play, Isabella's Room. The drama centres on an old blind woman, Isabella Morandi, who has lived through most of the 20th century without telling a single lie, and who recounts her li...
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