Gentle, soft-spoken Cynthia moves into a nursing home to share a room with the cantankerous and domineering Myrtle. But before Cynthia can settle in, a power struggle takes place as the women battle over the right to each other’s pasts and memories. Read more …
The Last Bloom blurs the line between truth and fantasy and explores the idea of the right to reshape one’s past.
Anni Domingo and Cleo Sylvestre make a beautiful job of capturing the plight of two women who are better off denying reality than trying to live with it. It’s a bleak conclusion; but it’s delivered, in Hamish Pirie’s production, with love, care, and a faint redeeming glow of sunlight, across fading lives.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday April 7, 2014, until Saturday April 12, 2014. More info: http://playpiepint.com
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday April 15, 2014, until Saturday April 19, 2014. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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