Last Friday night, Stuart and I went to see Backstroke at the Donmar Warehouse in London’s glitzy West End.
The excellent Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play mother Beth and daughter Bo in this kaleidoscopic and compassionate new play, written and directed by Anna Mackmin.
Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her own struggling daughter. When her mother, the irrepressible force-of-nature Beth, is admitted to hospital following a stroke a lot of repressed issues bubble to the surface
Imrie plays Beth as a sort of Edina Monsoon, and Greig’s Bo is a strait-laced Saffy. Only it’s nowhere near as funny as Absolutely Fabulous.
The content advice for the play might give you some sort of idea of the content and tone:
Strong language and comments about body image. There are depictions of stroke, and dementia/alzheimer's. There are references to drip removal, catheter insertions, thrush, blood, rectal pain relief, child abuse, injury during childbirth and abortion.
You have been warned!
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