It’s a familiar parent-teenager encounter. One rants and swears through an unreliable account of the day’s activities; the other listens with measured concern while clearing up popped Pringles cartons and cans. But in this scenario, a chaotic father is stretching the patience of his daughter who has seen and heard it all before.
Sarah Power’s emotionally acute drama shows how such a role reversal is one impact of alcoholism on a family. Another is the way that 17-year-old Bo strives to ringfence her difficult home life with her dad, Grud, and keep it secret from her new friendship with Aicha at their sixth-form college.
