Tuesday 7 December 2004, 18.30–20.30

A fascinating four-person play introduced by the writer and biographer, Michael Holroyd, based on the lives and complex relationships of  Augustus and Gwen John, and Ida Nettleship and Dorelia McNeil.

Gwen, Ida and Dorelia shared not only an ambition to become artists but also a close involvement with the charismatic painter Augustus John, who was Gwen's brother, Idas's husband, and Dorelia's lover. Their lives were experimental, liberated, and extraordinary, by turns heroic, intense, funny and sad.

Written by Candida Cave and performed by Pleasure for Pleasure, the play explores the group’s tangled relationships and the tensions between friendship, creativity, domesticity and family. The play has just returned from a British Council tour of Italy.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£7 (£5 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Gwen John and Augustus John exhibition