Kevin Elyot

Mouth to Mouth

Nick Hern Books, 2002.

Scene: The Kitchen.
Dennis: One day, very shortly after we'd first met, in fact...This particular day, an afternoon, we were sitting on top of Primrose Hill - it was the height of summer - and saw the most extraordinary thing: at the foot of the hill was a layer of snow, a vast expanse of thick white snow glistening in the sunlight. The middle of summer, it was, a hot July afternoon, and we were amazed. And I looked at her and thought, this is the most remarkable woman and I love her more than - more than...well... The snow - so strange. I thought we were blessed...
Frank: What was it? A freak snowstorm or - ?
Dennis: A trick of the light. That's all it was

The play was first performed at the Royal Court Downstairs, 1st February 2001. 'The fascination of Elyot's accomplished play is that it shows the London suburbs to be every bit as much filled with pain, passion and guilt as Proust's Paris or Combray' (Michael Billington, The Guardian, 8th February 2001).