The Painter And The Portrait

A play in three acts by Angeliki Zaphiropoulou

It takes place in Monaco

Peter, a Greek artist, has fallen in love with Mary, an English pianist and wife

 of his best friend John, an English architect. Tortured by his secret yearnings for

Mary , he secludes himself in his atelier to prepare his latest exhibition on the theme

of "Country Rivers". Even the company of his girl-friend Anne,a young French

journalist, is beginning to annoy him. His decision to paint a portrait of Mary as a

young lady, from memory, causes problems for John, Anne, Mary and Mary's

mother Kitty, an English retired teacher. Eventually, there flourishes a mutual,

passionate love between Mary and Peter...