This Is For You
Matt Beames & Mark Wheeller
Genre: Drama
Cast size: 8
Duration: 50 mins approx
Matt Beames & Mark Wheeller | Drama | One Act | 4m, 4f
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“I will remember you forever. All my life.” In January 2016, Susan meets Ian for coffee for the first time in forty years. The meeting is prompted by the death of Ian’s brother John, Susan’s first love. What begins as an awkward reunion soon becomes a journey into the past, as Ian reveals he has become the executor of John’s will and has something John wanted to give to Susan. As they talk, the play slips seamlessly between the present day and 1974, revealing Susan and John as teenagers, bound together by first love, shared dreams and a passion for music, particularly that of Mick Ronson (former Spiders From Mars guitarist). Their relationship is intense and full of promise, but is ultimately broken by family pressure, secrecy and a moment that echoes across a lifetime. “I will remember you forever. All my life.”
Decades later, the consequences of that separation continue to ripple outward. John’s widow, Jo, is forced to confront truths she never knew about her husband. And Susan must face the most painful secret of all: a daughter she was forced to give up for adoption, now an adult woman, Lisa, whose own life has been shaped by compassion, resilience and a search for connection.
Set in an immersive café environment and underscored throughout by iconic music, ‘This Is For You’ is a powerful examination of how love endures, how silence can damage, and how honesty even late in life can offer healing. It asks whether reconciliation is ever truly possible, and if it is ever too late to tell the truth.
Thought-provoking and quietly devastating, ‘This Is For You’ is a play about the music we carry with us, the people we lose, and the legacy of the choices we make when we are young.
Cover design by Helen Green
www.helengreenillustration.com
Photo Credits: Chris Webb
Eve Ibbott (Suzi) & George Davies (John)
Mick Ronson 1981 photo credit By mickeydb - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickeydb/537631495/sizes/l/in/photostream/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18801359
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