LINDA Marlowe will be at the Dukes on May 16 and 17 presenting her one-woman shows, 'Berkoff's Women' and 'Diatribe of Love.'

Linda Marlowe has worked with Steven Berkoff since the early seventies and has collaborated with him on developing most of his key female roles.

Out of her unique association with Steven Berkoff, Linda Marlowe presents Berkoff's Women on Thursday 16th at 7.30pm, a theatrical exploration of sensuality, revenge, pathos, heart-breaking loneliness and riotous humour.

This work is a compilation of some of the most rewarding, exciting moments of Berkoff's female roles, featuring excerpts from "Decadence", "Greek", "East", "Agamemnon" plus a new dramatised short story "From My Point of View".

It's a bold and daring collection of different aspects of women portrayed with stark, undiscriminating realism in a variety of performance styles; from a beautiful description of tender lovemaking to the coarsest sex talk, from the most painful vulnerability and loneliness to a blood soaked stabbing, Berkoff's pictures are painted with unnerving accuracy.

On Friday 17th at 8pm, Linda presents Diatribe of Love, Gabriel Garcia

Marquez's only play.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1928 in Colombia.

A prolific novelist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

His novels include "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Love in the Time of Cholera," "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and "The General In His Labyrinth".

Taking you on a psychological, spiritual and emotional journey, Diatribe of Love is a haunting and poetic study of a womans past and present dilemma.

On the eve of lavish celebrations to mark her 25th wedding anniversary, Graciela reflects on the events of her married life and resolves to take revenge upon her wealthy, powerful, philandering husband.

Born into poverty, Graciela has, through her marriage, enjoyed every kind of luxury and material comfort but never the warmth of her husband's love.

She is enraged by her memories of his past and present infidelities and his dictatorship values against humanity.

Finding herself increasingly isolated and alone, she examines her life with wit, pathos, irony and humour.

For tickets call the Dukes on 598500.