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A dramatization of the time that Van Gogh spent in Brixton in the 1870s_a period before he became a painter and one that changed him completely. Vincent develops a rapport with a widow twice his age, which blossoms into a full-blown love affair, only to be cruelly curtailed by the arrival of his fiercely puritan young sister. From the author of Cressida, Mrs. Klein, and the recent adaptation of Wedekind_s Lulu.
Vincent in Brixton, Vol. 1 FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman, working for the London branch of an international firm of art-dealers, rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality." Based on the true facts of Vincent van Gogh's early life in London, Nicholas Wright's new play, Vincent in Brixton, is about the transforming effect of love, sex and artistic adventure on unformed talent. It traces the birth of genius.
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