DENNIS POOLE sees a production which overcomes the physical limitations of social distancing to pose necessary questions about the value of space exploration
★★★☆☆You certainly can’t accuse the producer Sonia Friedman of going for the easy option of reopening in the West End with a tried and tested favourite. Instead, her Re:Emerge season greets the new
Twin sisters with a fractious history are planning a reunion at the start of Amy Berryman’s play. “We have to act happy,” says Stella to her fiance before her twin has arrived, and the anxious statement prepares us for the unfolding drama of sisterly competition and grudge. But the first in Sonia Friedman’s Re:Emerge series at the Harold Pinter theatre is not just a psychodrama of spiky sisterhood but an original play of ideas that takes in.