Arnold Wesker's Denial - Nicola Barber, Rosemary Mchale, Jeremy Child

A family is torn apart by memories of events that happened twenty years ago. When Matthew and Karen's daughter Jenny pays a visit to a therapist, she unlocks a secret history of stark childhood images, stripped of their innocence. But have these memories been recovered -or invented? Arnold Wesker, one of Britain's leading post-war dramatists is author of such landmark plays as 'Roots', 'The Kitchen', 'Chips With Everything' and 'Shylock'. The World Premier of this taut, psychological drama has been hailed as a tremendous critical success. With Nicola Barber as Jenny, Rosemary McHale as Karen, Jeremy Child as Matthew. Recorded live at Bristol Old Vic. Arnold Wesker's latest play, about child abuse, is brave, honest and urgent. The Guardian This is one of Arnold Wesker's most gripping and undogmatic plays. The Sunday Times A powerful, sensitive central performance from Nicola Barber. Bristol Evening Post Jeremy Child and Rosemary McHale give a pitiless account of despair and incomprehension and Andy Hay's direction is impeccable. The Sunday Times In the end, the play is a vehement assertion of the validity of the nuclear family... It is the promotion of such unfashionable ideas that makes Wesker the British theatre's congenital outsider. The Guardian ...

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