With All My Love I Hate You

With All My Love I Hate You is a tense play for two women. Julia is surprised to receive a visit from her one-time friend Clare - and a little apprehensive too, because for some years she has been mistress to Jerry, Clare’s husband, and has even borne him a son. Clare, in a pathetic state of misery following the death of her own small child and Jerry’s hatred of her, seems just to want to talk to and be comforted by Julia, but as time passes it becomes clear that she is deliberately goading the other woman for some purpose of her own. What starts as a quiet and uncomfortable talk erupts into violence and tragedy, with an ironic twist at the end.2 women