FOR YOU

Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser,is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the worldpremiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to thegrowing turmoil around him; his wife's poor health and dissatisfaction;the exhausted efforts of his secretary; and, the disquieting diligence ofhis housekeeper, Maria. As the first performance draws near, the maestrois suddenly awoken to the chaos, and as Charles struggles to regaincontrol of his life, a terrible tragedy begins to unfold. "For You" is abeautifully wrought and compelling libretto - It is Ian McEwan at his verybest.