In short, it was a wonderful play about a decaying house looking for its owner (Mrs Benjamin). More specifically, it centred around the chimney, floor and walls all trying to piece together the life of Mrs Benjamin through the little mementoes they find in an old biscuit tin.
Very funny, very moving, a real treat and something that resonated strongly with me. I keep a scrapbook of ‘memories’ at the workshop. It is full of all the little abandoned moments of other peoples life’s that we find in the furniture we restore. These can range from weird 70s style wedding snaps and mad passport photos to medical prescriptions, love poems and shoe repair tickets. I even have an old black and white wedding photo in which the groom has been torn out. There is one photo of a glamorous looking woman in a beret – she looks like a chic member of the French resistance!
I hope that in a very small way we can keep the memories of the furniture’s previous owners alive! It certainly fits in with our company’s strap line: ‘homestuff with history’.
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