In the latest of American playwright Annie Baker’s intensely humane and minutely observed situation dramas, we gain insights into the lives of five women undergoing fasting cures for cancer, Lyme’s Disease and chronic pain at a dodgy California spa.
James Macdonald’s understated production is exquisitely acted and contains a late contender for the year’s best line. Nelson, the only male patient, shows main character Sofi a photo from his colonoscopy with the words: “That’s my rectosigmoid junction.”
