Agnes Colander

<i>We should all have been taught more of life and less good manners</i><br/><br/>It is three years since Agnes an artist left her unfaithful husband Henry. Now he writes to her in her Kensington studio begging to reunite but Agnes married young; her innocence has gone and her ambition and independence is growing. As she travels from London to France Agnes finds herself torn between Otho a worldly Danish artist and Alec an infatuated younger suitor between a longing to paint and be an independent woman and a yearning to be loved.<br/><br/>This witty and compelling exploration of love sexual attraction and independence was written in 1900 and unearthed among Granville Barker's papers in the British Library a century later. Revised by playwright and librettist Richard Nelson this edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Theatre Royal Bath in Spring 2018.