Calico

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1928:The Paris apartment of James Joyce and his family. A world of secret lives and secret dreams. A young student named Samuel Beckett arrives and an unusual love begins. Calico is a fictional story inspired by fact. It is a captivating and exuberant play about a family in crisis. Scrupulously researched, Calico mixes sadness and great compassion to explore love almost to the brink of insanity. Calico opened at the Duke of York Theatre in London's West End in February 2004. It was directed by Edward Hall and starred Imelda Staunton.

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Michael Hastings was the author of 17 plays which include The World's Baby, Lee Harvey Oswald, The Silence of Saint-Just, Stars of the Roller State Disco, The Emperor (with Jonathan Miller), A Dream Of People, Unfinished Business and The Dance of the American Rattlesnake. He adapted Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author for BBC2 Performance series, and wrote the essay 'Rupert Brooke: The Handsomest Man in England'. His awards include the Academy of Arts and Sciences EMMY Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Evening Standard Comedy of the Year Award and BAFTA and Writer's Guild Awards.