Showing @ Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh until Mon 26 August (not 12, 20) @ 17:45
A Dutchman, a Yorkshireman and an Argentinian girl living in a flat in London, sounds like the set up for bad BBC Three or E4 sitcom, but fortunately this is a show of significantly more depth, subtlety and nuance. Tom comes down to London for the funeral of the father he never knew. Deciding to stay on down south and to try and understand more about his late father he moves in with Jan and Luciana, a young couple very much in love but struggling with moving their relationship onto the next stage.
A devised piece mixing physical theatre and naturalistic dialogue, the constant movement and flux perfectly suits the character’s conflicts, questions and discoveries about themselves. The play perfectly captures that moment in your twenties when you’re beginning to think about the shape you make in the world. It’s unfortunately burdened by a doom laden title which gives potential audiences a wrong impression of a play with depth, but without angst and whose strength lies in its evocation of very recognisable human experiences.
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