Tim Dutton (Douglas), Marjorie Yates (Mrs Jackson), Leo Bill (Michael), Jonathan Coy (Geoffrey), Sandra Voe (Ida), Saskia Reeves (Katherine) & Wendy Nottingham (Margaret) Photo

From: Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Rose Theatre Kingston's CURTAINS

Ida's family is throwing her a birthday tea for her eighty-sixth birthday. Their efforts to be cheerful and make the event a success verge on the desperate. Ida is racked with pain and feels she has lived too long. As the painfully laboured celebrations go on, her third daughter Susan returns unexpectedly after an absence of 25 years. Tensions immediately flare between the sisters, whilst Ida struggles to recognise her.