First presented by the Royal Court Theatre in London in September of
1996, Ashes to Ashes is a triumph of power and concision. In the living
room of a pleasant house in a university town outside of London, Devlin,
threatened by his wife Rebecca's recollections of an abusive ex-lover,
questions her relentlessly in his need for a single truth. In her
seamless blending of what she knows of violence with the wider violence
of the world, Rebecca reveals an eerie communion with the dead victims
of unnamed political barbarities.