Description

Jerry is a literary agent; Emma runs an art gallery; Robert is a publisher.

Emma and Robert are married and Jerry is Robert’s best friend, but Emma and Jerry have had a seven-year affair. 

The play opens with Emma and Jerry meeting for lunch in 1977, two years after the affair has finished and by a brilliant device the relationship of the three is traced backwards nine years to the evening when it all begun.

First presented at the National Theatre in 1978.