Fen
Fen Author: Caryl Churchill
First Performance: 1983, Colchester
Published: 1983
Genre: Drama in 21 scenes
Setting: A village in the Fens, 1980s
Cast: 6m, 16f
A Japanese businessman welcomes the audience to the fen, the ‘most expensive earth in England’, owned by a multinational corporation. Women pick potatoes, and Val leaves early: she is fed up with her marriage and plans to run away with Frank, who has left his wife. He invites her to stay with him, and she says goodbye to her daughters. Angela is cruel to her stepdaughter Becky. Val's daughters and Becky viciously tease old Nell. Val's mother May reproaches Val for leaving her daughters. Frank's boss is persuaded to sell his land to a City corporation, then sees the Ghost of a 19th-century woman working in his field. Val is torn between love for her...
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