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February 18, 2021 Last updated:
March 14, 2021
It was, I’ll admit, rather difficult to care very much about, for instance, what the writer (Tyler South) and the director (Cameron Essam) of a play within this play were discussing. One of them, perhaps both, has a degree: well, so do a lot of people these days. And if that wasn’t ground-breaking news, the audience also gets to find out precisely what sort of croissant someone is eating. Riveting, edge of seat stuff.
If you’re still reading this, Naomi (Jesse Bateson), an actor, is both brown-nosing and being brown-nosed by the play’s writer. With borderline absurd pleasantries and compliments being exchanged, I found myself wondering if an extra-marital affair was going to materialise. Fortunately or unfortunately, there is nothing of the sort. The play within a play is set at Berkshire Women’s Refuge (is there really only one women’s refuge centre in the wh