Janis in the Chelsea and Other Plays

Is public adulation always accompanied by private disappointment? Is creative fulfilment necessarily at odds with personal happiness? What is the price of fame? In these three biographical scenarios - about respectively Janis Joplin, Edward Elgar and Oscar Wilde - Nigel Gearing explores the often droll disparity between the satisfying structures we call Art and the infinitely more messy 'rag-and-bone shop of the heart'.