First performed in 1978, Plenty is about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs — she had worked behind enemy lines as a Special Operations Executive courier in Nazi — occupied France during World War II — and the mundane nature of her present life, as the increasingly depressed wife of a diplomat whose career she has destroyed. Viewing society as morally bankrupt, Susan has become self-absorbed, bored, and destructive — the slow deterioration in her mental health mirrors the crises in the ruling class of post-war Britain.
Susan Traherne’s story is told in a non-linear chronology, alternating between her wartime and post-wartime lives, illustrating how youthful dreams rarely are realized and how a person’s personal life can affect the outside world.Author: David Hare
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 03/14/2017
Series: Faber Drama
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780571336135
Language: English
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