Shaffer Peter. Five Finger Exercise

Drama / 3m, 2f / Comp. Int. The first stage success from the author of Equus and Amadeus, this taut family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of well-to-do family is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated people. "A powerful and absorbing drama." - New York PostThe play is set at a weekend cottage in Suffolk in the 1950's and the action centres on the Harrington family, who are spending a weekend at their cottage in the hope of easing family feuding.The tension between husband and wife is evident from the start. The husband, a cultural philistine immersed in the business world is at constant loggerheads with his wife, a 'Mrs Bucket' character with cultural aspirations.