My Heart's a Suitcase

A modern feminist classic – a fiercely original parable of modern materialism.

An angrily impoverished waitress and a philosophical ceramics teacher in the early stages of multiple sclerosis share a borrowed, run-down seaside apartment for the weekend. Visitors include the shopaholic wife of the landlord, a drunken misfit and two spectral intruders: Pest, a bad memory; and Luggage, the Patron Saint of Heavy Burdens.

Clare McIntyre's play My Heart's a Suitcase was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 1990. It won her the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Most Promising Playwright.