BATS Past Productions

The Gioconda Smile

A play from the short story by Aldous Huxley.

Performed by STADS at St. Teilo's Church Hall, Bishopston on April 14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd, 1978. Tickets cost 30p, children 20p, OAPs 15p.

Synopsis

Emily Hutton has been a complaining chronic invalid and her husband Henry, a rich and still comparatively young man, has found consolation elsewhere. For years he has shared his intellectual and artistic interests with Janet Spence, valuing her Gioconda-like inscrutability, but Janet's surface calm hides an intense passion for Henry, and she poisons Emily. When, after several months' separation, she finds Henry has married someone else she determines to wreak havoc on their lives.