Moving between garden and hospital, the play is concerned with the reactions of all the characters to the news that Grace is dangerously ill.
Black humour is very much an element in the play. Her brother, lover and friend are put to the test of unconditional love. Why do we and they find it so difficult to deal with death and why do we evade talking about it? Without a strong belief in God and everlasting life, Grace gradually escapes with the aid of a fellow sufferer, a taxi driver, TD, from the false hopes of conventional religion. Both of them place their faith in the world of poetry, of spinning words for the sheer pleasure, of being part of the creative world. Her friends are shut out because they don't/can't enter the game.

Grace can be difficult, even cruel at times but finds an epiphany of sorts in the course of the play.

" Cancer creeps up sideways. It attacks from the inside. It takes the breath away
A bit like Richard Morris’ new play."

Tessa Morris, winner of Channel 4's "Lloyds Bank Film Challenge" is currently preparing a film script of the above play.

She has been a commissioned writer for the television soap opera Hollyoaks

Family Affairs and is developing her own scripts.

Excerpt from this play

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