By Emma
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0kcbV-x4I
Available until: Unknown
Trigger: Abortion (I probably shouldn’t say that really but
I don’t want anyone to watch this without knowing and be upset by it)
I relate to this story a lot. Not the trigger part. Just the
feeling that I’m not that interesting really and that I only become interesting
after I’ve had quite a few drinks. I don’t do it now because I have to be more
responsible but sometimes I wish I could. A lot of people have said to me that I
probably wasn’t as interesting as I thought I was and I probably made a right
idiot of myself (and some of the time, I probably did) but it really didn’t
seem that way at the time.
That’s how it is for a lot of people including the character in this play. She has trouble knowing what to say when she’s sober but when she’s out clubbing, things are different and she feels like a better version of herself.
I think she’s actually a really nice person with so many
good intentions. But good intentions aren’t always enough and that’s part of
what makes this play so sad. And so real.
If this was a more conventional play I think it would have
had a different ending. A more predictable ending that rounded everything off
nicely and left as few loose ends as possible. But this play is much more
realistic. I think it’s a brave thing for a writer to do because the ending
could turn out really unsatisfying and just not work.
But it does work. Samantha Dooey-Miles writes this play so
much from the heart and with so much sincerity and Stephanie Bron plays the
character exactly as she’s written and doesn’t try to do anything clever with
the role. It’s very real because everyone has moments when they know they could
do something but they don’t and then the moment is gone and that really is just
the end of it. This play works completely and the ending is exactly the right
one.
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