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Ivy & Joan

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

Ivy & Joan
by James Hogan

Late in life two women start new lives and leave home. But where is home? Did they ever really have one? Ivy and Joan are two intimate, funny and heartbreaking tales of loss.
Ivy is a barmaid forced to retire. She has worked and lived in the …

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Late in life two women start new lives and leave home. But where is home? Did they ever really have one? Ivy and Joan are two intimate, funny and heartbreaking tales of loss.

Ivy is a barmaid forced to retire. She has worked and lived in the same hotel for 40 years, waiting for a lover to return and claim her. Putting on a brave face, she spends her last few minutes in employment offering her wise counsel in the staff room. No one is listening.

Joan has travelled to Venice with her husband. A Sunday painter, drawn to the splendour of Venetian art, she hopes for inspiration. When she comes across a joyous wedding procession in St Mark's Square she is reminded of what is really missing in her life.

Ivy, a live-in barmaid, 60s.
Victor, a wine waiter, 50s.
Joan, an amateur painter, 50s.
Eric, her husband, a suave hotel doorman, 50s.
  • Time Period Contemporary

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James Hogan

James Hogan’s plays include Peacefully in his Sleep (Gate Theatre 1978); The Guest Room (Not the RSC Festival and Old Red Lion Theatre 1986); Venetian Gold (Cockpit Theatre London, Edinburgh Festival, King’s Head Islington 1991); Trotsky and Our Ernie (Cockpit 1990); Ivy & Jo ...
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