At a glance
Additional small roles are intended to be doubled by the principal actors. Genre Psychological drama Running time 40 minutes
Synopsis
In a clinical room with a glass of milk on the table, Lisa is asked to tell her story again. A story about a mother desperate to protect her daughter, no matter what, and a past she never escaped.
As therapy slips into interrogation and harrowing memories begin to replay, it becomes clear that Lisa isn't simply remembering the past... she's trapped inside it, forced to relive the same events over and over. As the boundaries between memory, truth and reality begin to blur, every revelation raises new questions, drawing the audience ever deeper into Lisa's fractured world.
Dark, unsettling and deeply moving, A Taste of White is a psychological drama about trauma, guilt and the terrifying consequences of a mind unable to escape its own past.
Written for two exceptionally demanding principal performers, the play offers actors the opportunity to explore a wide emotional range. Lisa is a powerful, emotionally complex central role, while the second performer takes on a succession of contrasting characters, shifting seamlessly between different people, places and moments in time. With a simple, highly adaptable setting and considerable scope for imaginative lighting, sound and staging, A Taste of White gives directors the freedom to create a striking and memorable theatrical experience.
