[1] Beginning as a seeming domestic drama,[2] Rafts and Dreams shows the relationship between obsessive-compulsive mysophobe Hetty and her soldier husband Leo, and their neighbour Neil – a victim of childhood sexual abuse who is now studying to be a doctor.
Leo makes a raft from their living room and as they float they meet the wife of the man who abused Neil.
The production was directed by John Dove and the cast was: Neil Bell – Jonathan Cullen Hetty – Adie Allen Leo – Jason Watkins Jo – Natasha Pyne Alex – Ilan Ostrove Woman – Maureen Hibbert In 2003 the play was revived at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in a production directed by Tim Stark.
[3] “While digging up the roots of a tree in the garden, Neil, Leo and Hetty uncover a vast underground lake which floods away the world.
With Leo at the tiller of his sawn-away living room, the trio begin a voyage over the earth's watery surface … Rafts and Dreams is a surrealist fantasy at its most thought-provoking, a play whose best bits manage (in both senses) to work like a dream.” – Paul Taylor, The Independent.