Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves star in David Eldridge’s tender two-hander about love’s final chapter.
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"The piece builds out a world beyond their home and this one morning... this is tender, compassionate drama."
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"Overall this is a gentle, sad, valedictory piece of work about life and death, happiness and class, performed and directed with great subtlety."
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"I think the play would have benefitted from being divided into scenes that were spread over a longer period of time, without a startling new revelation or turn of events every ten minutes in what’s meant to be a single chat."
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"Despite the bleakness of its subject matter, there is tenderness, warmth and gallows humour. Love in the midst of death; death in the midst of love."
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"It’s an astonishingly realised portrayal of the way human beings can grope towards an expression of the real things they are feeling."
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"The unhurried staging never becomes static, but while the script is truthful and keenly observed, the piece feels more like documentary than drama: overly observational; lacking forward momentum."
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"It's a quietly moving play that makes sense on its own – without quite having the narrative heft to clean up as a piece of drama in its own right."
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"Such perfect performances prove that this is an outstanding way of finishing a trilogy which encompasses all of life."
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