Directed by: Brett Marston - The scene is the living room/kitchen of a
small house on an isolated country road, which is shared by Jessie and
her mother. Jessie's father is dead; her loveless marriage ended in
divorce; her absent son is a petty thief and ne'er-do-well; her last
job didn't work out and, in general, her life is stale and
unprofitable. As the play begins Jessie asks for her father's service
revolver and calmly announces that she intends to kill herself. At
first her mother refuses to take her seriously, but as Jessie sets
about tidying the house and making lists of things to be looked after,
her sense of desperate helplessness begins to build. In the end, with
the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned
and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door
and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply
disturbing moment—a moment never to be forgotten by those who have
witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.
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