Format

Short play

About

St Martin’s put together a group of four young playwrights and asked us to respond to the theme of 1989. We would write 20 minute plays which would be performed by the Performance Ensemble.

In 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez murdered their parents.

In Love, my 20 minute play is like an extended moment of repression, agony and guilt, as Erik Menendez, the younger and the weaker of the two Menendez brothers, is perched on the precipice of confession. The play is in three scenes, and follows a ghostly day for Erik as he befriends a handsome newcomer, Rob. Eventually, Rob and Erik end up at the murder scene: the family home. It’s vacant, Batman is playing cat ‘n’ mouse with Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Lyle is waiting.

Creative team

Writer Michele Lee

Director Adena Jacobs

Dramaturg Melanie Beddie

Production designer Marg Horwell

Lighting designer Richard Vabre

Sound designer Jared Lewis

With the St Martins’s 2009 Performance Ensemble

Production and development

2009: presented by St Martins Youth Arts Centre as part of the ’1989′ performance ensemble show

2009: commissioned and developed as part of the St Martins Emerging Writers’ Ensemble