Best-selling romantic novelist Paul Sheldon retires each winter to the snow-covered hills of Colorado to write another work featuring his beautiful heroine Misery Chastain. Driving whilst inebriated, he encounters severe weather and his car goes off the road. Instead of awakening in hospital he comes to in a filthy, dilapidated farmhouse, isolated from the outside world by the blizzard, occupied by the schizophrenic Annie, his “Number One Fan”. She insists she will nurse him, refusing to tell anyone his whereabouts. His crushed legs mean he is virtually a prisoner, dependant on Annie for pain relief. When she discovers his new novel does not feature Misery she forces him to destroy the manuscript and write another. Thus begins Paul’s descent into a living hell. Annie withholds pain relief, inflicts humiliation and degradation, forcing Paul, like Scheherazade, to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.

Misery will be presented in English with Chinese subtitles

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Annie Wilkes: Candice Moore
Paul Sheldon: Barry O'Rorke
Directed by Daren Durkin

Produced by Jodi Gilchrist and Colin Wong
27th - 30th May 2009. 7.45pm (Saturday matinee 2.30pm)
Fringe Theatre, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central, Hong Kong.
Adults $220 / Fringe members, students, disabled, senior citizens $180
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