Summary
It is halfway through the first act of William Nicholson's The Retreat From Moscow when it becomes apparent that the military catastrophe serves as a heavy-handed metaphor for the painful domestic war being waged by the unhappy middle-aged English couple. When brow-beaten [Edward] announces his retreat from their 33-year marriage -- freezing his wife out of his life -- the audience is left with the awful spectacle of the wounded [Alice] writhing in agony and wishing a quick end to her misery.
Nicholson's semi-autobiographical chronicle of a marital meltdown (his parents' divorce is his template) is a bit of a forced march over well-trod ground that has already been trampled this season by Lyn and Andy in Prairie Theatre Exchange's Apple."It's like somehow you've sneaked away while I wasn't looking," she tells him before he breaks the news that he has found someone else.See the full content of this document
Extract
Retreat From Marriage a Bitter, Cold Campaign
By Kevin Prokosh
THE lights come up on the MTC Warehouse's season-opener with Edward reading aloud eyewitness accounts of Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow. It w...See the full content of this document
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