For all its spiky humor, the play is as clear-sighted about the skills required when providing care as it is about the experience of receiving and needing care.
), a bartender who becomes his caregiver, Eddie , a nervy unemployed truck driver, and Ani , his quadriplegic ex-wife.
The play then jumps back in time to follow the separate tracks of two stories; while one later scene brings two of the characters together, the play is really two narratives running in reflective tandem. After their scene-enhancing brilliance of Sir Tom Stoppard’s, here too the stage design and lighting do vital and beautiful complementary work to a quartet of excellent performances and Jo Bonney’s nimble and subtle direction.
The tone between Eddie and Ani is far more bluff; a kind of stinging and affectionate couple of exes straight out of There are two key scenes set around bathing; one as we see Jess help give John a shower, and the other as Eddie chats to Ani as she bathes. Both are important, showing the amount of care and physical effort John and Jess take to ensure his physical safety, with trust, strength and gentleness at its heart. Eddie and Ani’s bathing scene shows the depth of their relationship beyond the well-worn tracks of familiar bickering.
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