Monday, 26 February 2018
932 Madly In Love
First viewed : 27 January 1990
This single play was broadcast on Channel Four on a Saturday night and starred Samantha Bond as Lee, a young wife and mother subjected to a campaign of harassment and intimidation from Julia ( Penelope Wilton ) a middle-aged sufferer from De Clerambault's Syndrome who believes Lee's doctor husband is in love with her instead. The play details Lee's battle to cope with the unwanted intruder often getting herself into trouble as a result.
The writer was Sandy Welch and you could tell it was female-authored from the way that the men were depicted. Both husbands are aware of what's going on but Lee's buries himself in work while Julia's doesn't want to intervene because she still cooks for him and looks after his kids.
There's no real resolution; Lee and Julia come to a tentative understanding over a brew but that's where it's left. Seven years later, Ian McEwan published his novel Enduring Love which covers similar territory in rather more melodramatic fashion.
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