The Retreat from Moscow: A Play About a Family

The celebrated author of Shadowlands tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again.

A finely perceptive, eloquently tender and exquisite new play. -New York

How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest?
Is love enough to save a family?

Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. He is
a teacher at a boys school, perfectly at home with his daily crossword and lately
engrossed in reading about Napoleon’s costly invasion of Moscow. She is an observant
Catholic, exacting and opinionated, and has been collecting poems about lost love
for a new anthology. Jamie, their diffident thirty-two year old son, is visiting
for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. With the coiled intensity
of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and the embracing empathy of Edward Albee’s best
family dramas, The Retreat from Moscow shines a breathtakingly natural light on the
fallout of a shattered marriage.