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'It's hard to imagine things getting back to normal after this though. I don't suppose they do from now on, not really.' In the kitchen of an old Devon rectory, the daughter who stayed and the son who moved away make conversation with their current and former partners, the milkman, the postman, the care workers. They talk about the weather, the roads, the toaster, the bins. About anything except the simmering tensions between them, as their father lies mortally ill in the next room. Until the unspoken emotions and conflicts of years boil over. Eclipse is a painfully funny, acute and delicate play about our struggle to communicate, in the face of life and of death - and our infinite capacity for drinking tea. It was first performed in the Minerva Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2026, written and directed by John Morton.
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John Morton is a writer and director for stage, film and television.
His first comedy People Like Us began life on BBC Radio 4 and transferred to BBC2. The series won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Comedy and the Silver Rose for Comedy at the Montreux Television Festival, as well as being nominated for a BAFTA, a British Comedy Award and a South Bank Show Award.
He created, wrote and directed the comedy series Twenty Twelve, first broadcast on BBC4 and BBC2 in 2011, with a second series following in 2012. His BAFTA award-winning comedy W1A ran for three critically acclaimed series.
His debut stage play, Eclipse, was premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2026.
