Honour

A devastating play about infidelity and betrayal. After 32 years acclaimed journalist George leaves Honor, a poet, wife and mother. In the wake of his new passion for Claudia, a bright young journalist not much older than their 24-year-old daughter, Sophie, Honor must come to grips with the career she has willingly sacrificed for her husband and child, the evolution of a marriage, her abandonment and eventual resurrection. In a series of intense confrontations, the wife, husband, lover and daughter negotiate the forces of passion, lust, history, responsibility and honour. A familiar story is told in a distinctly original way, using language that is bitterly comic, poetic and uncompromisingly savage. Honour was the winner of the 1996 Victorian Premier's Award for Drama. It has since been performed widely, premiering on Broadway in 1998 and at the National Theatre in London in 2003. 'Totally absorbing, full of surprises, beautifully written ... It is mature in its sympathies and impressive in its intellectual and emotional range.'-The Age 'Murray-Smith's considerable skill lies in charting the minute emotional shifts and the subtle power play between the four people... Superb.'-The Mail on Sunday 'Murray-Smith's writing is searching and droll, naturalistic and poetically honed.'-The Independent on Sunday