We enter this drama in the middle of a conversation rather than its start. A couple are meeting for a coffee – it’s a reunion, of sorts. John (David Sturzaker) flirts and flatters. Aga (Olivia Le Andersen) deflects his advances. He lives in a six-bedroom home with his wife and family. She is an immigrant with an eastern European accent who worries about paying the bills and feeding her children. Is she, we wonder, his lover or his cleaner – or both?
There is initial, deliberate discombobulation in Magdalena Miecznicka’s script, which builds its delicious, satirical-yet-serious drama around the power play, and power disparities, within this adulterous ex-relationship.
