Published November 2019 via Nick Hern Books
★★★
Two sisters: Her and Sister are probably the only ones who can possibly understand what they went through as children—and even now, they can't quite connect. Her has found a tenuous stability in adulthood; Sister is in a cycle of addiction and rehab and narrow misses. They prop each other up and they drag each other down and they pull their childhood round and round and round.
I think I expected a bit more of the present day in this one. There is the present day, certainly, but more than that Her and Sister spend quite a lot of time rehashing their (very valid) pain and trauma from their upbringing, and for whatever reason that just wasn't what I was looking for in this play. This cycle they find themselves in—Her trying but unable to really help Sister, Sister trying but unable to see a way out, each Her and Sister struggling to empathize with the other's perspective—is fascinating and sad, but gosh it's heavy, with precious few bright spots. I can see the value in the play, but I'm not sure it's one I'd choose to see performed.
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