1 July - 7 August 1993

MAYBE

World Premiere

by Mikhail Shatrov

adapted by Keith Reddin

Patricia Taylor PHYLLIDA HEWAT
Barbara Mikulska MARGARET ROBERTSON
Michelle Forster MELANIE THAW
Lynn Forster VANESSA REDGRAVE
James Brook JOHN BENNETT

Director BRAHAM MURRAY
Designer JOHANNA BRYANT
Lighting VINCE HERBERT
Sound PHILIP CLIFFORD
Assistant Director JAKE LUSHINGTON
Dialect Coach PENNY DYER
Choreographer WENDY ALLNUTT

$"...this world premiere is one of the best things Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre company has ever given us. Redgrave plays with dignity and compassion...John Bennett plays both men superbly...Maybe...is a tense, taut, dense, rich drama of politics and passions, mind and heart that inevitably invites - and bears - comparison with Arthur Miller. Here at last is a challenging theatre of ideas delivered, on an exquisitely substantial setting from Johanna Bryant, with all the technical polish this company excels at."
Robin Thornber The Guardian

"Redgrave is at her hypnotic best. She is not acting the part, sheis it."
Michael Schmidt The Daily Telegraph