Arena Theatre presents Jason Robert Brown's “The Last Five Years”, Directed by Abby Batchelor with permission from Josef Weinberger.
The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order, and Jamie's is told in chronological order. The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.The Last Five Years by Tony award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown is a musical deconstruction of a love affair and a marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wellerstein is a young, talented up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the centre when Jamie proposes.
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AddressShore Road, Swanage, Dorset, Swanage, Dorset,
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