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Mean Tears
by Peter Gill
National Theatre
Cottesloe, 22 July 1987
Length: about 2 hours and 15 minutes, including 15 minute interval
"This is a romantic drama which intelligently and movingly captures a clenched English intellectual world of lost friendship and sexual treachery, a world peopled by characters who all have the emptiness of a dead vodka bottle. Mean Tears is about sexual and romantic ownership; it's also about despair and revenge in a society where answer-phones are used like iron lungs and where possession is nine-tenths of the raw reality." Sheridan Morley, Punch, 1987
'Mean Tears catches perfectly the mixture of heartlessness, self-obsession and despair that characterised the late 1980s." John Burgess, Faber introduction
| Julian | Bill Nighy |
| Stephen | Karl Johnson |
| Paul | Garry Cooper |
| Celia | Hilary Dawson |
| Nell | Emma Piper |
| Director | Peter Gill |
| Designer | Alison Chitty |
| Lighting | Stephen Wentworth |
| Production Manager | Jason Barnes |
| Stage Manager | Trish Montemuro |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Angela Fairclough |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Valerie Fox |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Matthew Lynch |
| Sound | Nic Jones |
| Assistant to the Lighting Designer | Ian Williams |
| Production Assistant | Andrew Sugars |
| Costume Supervisor | Anna Watkins |
| Production Photographer | John Haynes |
| Programme designed by | Michael Mayhew |
| Programme designed by | Rose Towler |
| Poster, programme cover design and photography | Michael Mahew |