The Retreat from Moscow

The celebrated author ofShadowlands 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 its 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 Napoleons 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 Stoppards The Real Thing and the embracing empathy of Edward Albees best family dramas The Retreat from Moscow shines a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage.